Administrator password

I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking for the
administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Tom

Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking
for the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help
would be great.

Thanks,
Tom

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that and it brought me to a dos prompt.
"Ricky" wrote in message
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Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking for
the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help would be
great.

Thanks,
Tom

"Tom" wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that and it brought me to a dos
prompt.

If you're at a command prompt, that would probably mean that you're actually
at the recovery console, not in the reinstall functions.

Type "exit" to leave the recovery console, restart the machine, and don't
press R, but press Enter when asked what you want to do.

HTH
-pk

"Ricky" wrote in message
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Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking for
the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help would be
great.

Thanks,
Tom

Have a look here for a repair install..
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

"Tom" wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that and it brought me to a dos
prompt.
"Ricky" wrote in message
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Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking
for the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help
would be great.

Thanks,
Tom

Ricky,

This was most helpful. I'll try this at work in the next hour. I should
have stated earlier that I'm trying to "repair" windows, and keep getting an
"Administrator password".
Thanks for trying to help,
'Tom
"Ricky" wrote in message
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Have a look here for a repair install..
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

"Tom" wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that and it brought me to a dos
prompt.
"Ricky" wrote in message
...
Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking for
the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help would be
great.

Thanks,
Tom

"Tom" wrote in message
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Ricky,

This was most helpful. I'll try this at work in the next hour. I should
have stated earlier that I'm trying to "repair" windows, and keep getting
an "Administrator password".
Thanks for trying to help,
'Tom
The reason would be that you must login as administrator to perform the
repair.
Jim
"Ricky" wrote in message
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Have a look here for a repair install..
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

"Tom" wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick reply. I tried that and it brought me to a dos
prompt.
"Ricky" wrote in message
...
Try leaving it blank and hit enter.

"Tom" wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall windows xp, and come to a dos screen asking
for the administrator password. I don't have a password. Any help
would be great.

Thanks,
Tom