Re: Can't login in to XP

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You do not need to loose your files.

At the very least, you can take the hard-drive out and put it in a working
XP machine as a 'slave' drive (you may have to change the 'jumper' setting
to SL (slave) from either MS (master) or CS (cable select) The 'jumper'
itself is a tiny 'bridge' between two of six pins marked with the before
mentioned letters (SL, MS or CS)).

Once temporarily installed in another machine, you can then copy all of your
files (in an Administrator - level account) to a pen-drive from your
profile's 'My Documents' folder.
(located at "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents")

Once safely on the pen drive, you can then take back your hard-drive back to
your own PC and begin re-installing XP, knowing that all your data is safe
on the pen drive.

A pen drive of about 4GB should be well enough space for such an operation,
unless you have a particularly large collection of music or many video
files.

But do not give up on trying to repair your present installation just yet.

As, "js" asks, have you tried safe-mode?

Or, is that what you meant by "...tried using the command prompt to get
in....." ???


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Cheers, Tim Med***, Peckham, London. :-)




"JS" <@> wrote in message news:eeFna8k4JHA.4184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Have you tried 'Safe Mode'?

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JS
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"Goobster" <Goobster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:57A349C3-D384-45F6-BA2F-DD016046F333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I think I may have a virus, but I cannot get onto the system to find out.

When my XP system boots, it asks me for a user password. During set-up
two
years ago, these passwords were left blank. If I try to load my user
account,
or the Admin account, it says the user is logging in, but logs it
straight
out again.
I have tried using a couple of tools which gave me access to these
accounts
during the boot phase, and they tell me that the passwords are blank, but
I
still cannot log onto the system.
I tried using the command prompt to get in but that doesn't work.
i don't want to reiinstall and lose all my files,
Any clues?




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