Repairing XP Home

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Mark Griffiths

Hi all,
I am trying to run the repair function on the XP Home CD and am coming up
against the following problem:-

It asks me which windows installation I want to log on to (there is only 1)
so I type 1 and press enter.
It then asks me for the Administrator password, but when I enter the
password it tells me it is not valid.
I have rebooted the machine into safe mode and loged on to the
Administrators account successfully, so I know the password I am typing is
correct. Anyone come acoss this before, and know what to do???


Any help appreciated

Regards and TIA

Mark G.
 
I am sorry I can't help you with this problem but I would like to warn you
about using repair to hastily.

I found out the hard way that it deletes all historic system restore points.
This is not a problem if it works, but if it does not then you can no longer
restore your system to a previous point when it was working OK, so you may
wish to consider using system restore first as you can always get back to
where you are now and try repair later, but if you try repair and it does
not work you may end up reinstalling windows which I found to be a really
time consuming operation.
 
Thanks Lorne,
I'll bear that in mind!
Regards
Mark G.

----- Lorne wrote: -----

I am sorry I can't help you with this problem but I would like to warn you
about using repair to hastily.

I found out the hard way that it deletes all historic system restore points.
This is not a problem if it works, but if it does not then you can no longer
restore your system to a previous point when it was working OK, so you may
wish to consider using system restore first as you can always get back to
where you are now and try repair later, but if you try repair and it does
not work you may end up reinstalling windows which I found to be a really
time consuming operation.
 
Mark

Did you ever get any joy repairing that ? I'm encountering exactly the same problem. Know my password is correct etc etc..

Any help much appreciated

Ta

Ia

----- Mark Griffiths wrote: ----

Hi all
I am trying to run the repair function on the XP Home CD and am coming u
against the following problem:

It asks me which windows installation I want to log on to (there is only 1
so I type 1 and press enter
It then asks me for the Administrator password, but when I enter th
password it tells me it is not valid
I have rebooted the machine into safe mode and loged on to th
Administrators account successfully, so I know the password I am typing i
correct. Anyone come acoss this before, and know what to do??


Any help appreciate

Regards and TI

Mark G
 
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