Re: After Repair, XP requires password. Never had one, can't log in! H
- From: "Dennis Marks" <denmarks@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:11:44 -0700
Restart in safe mode (f8)
Login to the administrator account
Go to control panel and reset the passwords for all users
"XP Password Pain" <XP Password Pain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Brief Description of Problem: After running XP repair to correct a
> problem
> booting, my system is now requiring a password at log in. I have never
> used
> a password before and all attempts to bypass the password field have
> failed.
> I cannot log in to my computer.
> Background and Description: I have a Dell Dimension 8200, 2.8 GHz,
> running
> Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 1. It had all of the updates for
> Service Pack 1 installed.
> The other day it had an error message that I did not take note of thinking
> rebooting would solve the problem. However, the system would not reboot.
> It
> would start to boot, get to the XP loading screen, then there would be a
> very
> brief flash of a "blue screen" error message, and it was start attempting
> to
> reboot again. Shutting the system off and trying again repeated the same
> pattern as did attempting a Safe Mode start. After many views of the
> brief
> glimpse of the "blue screen" message, it appeared it stated an error about
> "unmountable_boot_value" or something similar.
> I did a web search on that error and found suggestions to use the XP disk's
> "recovery option" feature and entering "chkdsk /r". After doing this, I
> was
> able to boot and get to the user account screen. However, I previously
> had
> three unrestricted accounts set up for me, my wife, and my daughter using
> our
> names. Now there was a fourth account showing, called "Guest". When I
> hit
> the account with my name, a pop-up asking for a password appeared. I have
> never used a password for my or any log in on this computer before. My
> attempts to log in by leaving the password screen blank or attempting to
> enter passwords was met with a message stating "The local policy of this
> system does not permit you to login interactively" or similar.
> Using the XP disk, I ran the repair function. It went through the process
> (though I did receive some error copying files messages) and, again,
> booted
> fine to the Windows XP user account screen. But, as before, it was
> requiring
> a password for all of the named accounts. Trying Safe Mode yielded the
> same
> result.
> I would appreciate advice on how to overcome this error in order to log in
> to my system in order to save my data files.
> Please post help or e-mail me at yahoo.com
> My yahoo user name is sgt1965
> Thanks!
>
.
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