Re: XP Home missing user & logon

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From: Phil (I.fix.probs_at_for.you)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:16:58 -0400

Boot to safe mode, log in as administrator, run system restore. Your users
should come back.

Soum wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a pentium 4 notebook with dual boot (Linux & Win XP Home)
> and it has been working nice over a year untill yesterday when it
> suddenly started showing user logon screen with missing users after
> normal boot.
> I pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL twice for user logon prompt and I used the
> only user account in notebook (XP needs to have atleast one user
> account) with no password as didn't set any but it denied access. I
> tried with Administrator but in vain. Now the situation is I can't get
> into win XP.
> Did anybody faced similar problem. Please, Please, Please let me
> how to resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Soum.

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