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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 |
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Try leaving it blank and hit enter.
"Tom" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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"Tom" wrote in message
... 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 ... Try leaving it blank and hit enter. "Tom" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Have a look here for a repair install..
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "Tom" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 |
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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 "Ricky" wrote in message ... Have a look here for a repair install.. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "Tom" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 |
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"Tom" wrote in message ... 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 ... Have a look here for a repair install.. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "Tom" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 |
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