win xp repair

**chubzuki** · 18th July 2004

when i boot from disk to repair an installation, it says type what drive in you want to repair then it asks for an administrators password, can anyone give some guidance please?

chubz

**sniper** · 18th July 2004

if you are trying to repair your windows then it's the your main HD you want to repair and it will be c: , were you the only user of the pc if so give the password you used at boot up , if not ask the main user of the pc for their password , if you don't know any of them just try pressing 'enter' else try administrator as the password

**bob_g** · 19th July 2004

If you don't know the password for the Administrator account, you can reset it to a known value using various 3rd party tools. My favourite is this one:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Of course, given you are trying to run repair, there is no guarantee the system isn't so broken that this tool won't work.

Cheers,

Bob.

**Bad Ad** · 20th July 2004

you can also boot off a windows 2000 cd if you just want console access, its a known bug that you wont be asked for a PW if you use a 2000 cd on a xp machine.