Re: Recovery console, cant login!

From: Terry Brown (terry.brown@nevisuk.net)
Date: 06/18/02 

From: "Terry Brown" <terry.brown@nevisuk.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:36:12 +0100

Sounds as if your copy of XP was preinstalled. Suggest you read:

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q307545

The only problem is that I have tried this on a number of PCs now, without
success.

Terry

"Jose" <Jopache1@aol.com> wrote in message
news:feaf01c216f5$372c1670$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
> i have windows xp home edition, when i try to use
> recovery console i cant. i try from install cd and the
> recovery console is installed on my hard drive, when i
> try to login it asks me for administator password, i
> enter the CORRECT password, and it wont let me, i change
> administrator password in safe mode so that there isnt
> one, and it still wont let me go into recovery console, i
> change it again to something simple and it wont let me
> login to recovery console, it just keeps coming up as
> invalid password even though it is correct, and Case is
> not the problem, trust me, i enter the correct
> administrator password and it wont let me login, i even
> tried passwords for other users of the computer(owner and
> another user) please help!!!! if you cant help me, then
> how could i go by formatting my hard drive(i cant login
> in to recovery console remember) to install windows xp??
> please help!!

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