I'm NOT part of a Domain......(sorry for the multi-post)

From: DS (t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t_at_a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a..n.e.t)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: 7 Mar 2004 08:58:49 -0600

I apologize in advance for this multi-post. I found this group after I
posted a question to m.p.win200.networking but it's more relevant here
since it's XP.

I have an oddball problem. One of the people that I provide support for
had a problem with their XP pro.

Somehow or another, the 'system' file for the registry became corrupted.
It may have been caused by a power outage ? But anyway, upon bootup it
would give the error that '...\system was missing or corrupt'.

I ruled out a memory issue as it failed with the same file each time. In
my experience, if it was a problem with RAM, it would be a different file
each time. So following M$ suggestion's, I did a repair booting from the
XP cd.

After the repair the PC now boot's and comes to a login screen. It
think's that it's part of a domain now, but it's not, it was in a
workgroup. Logon is not possible because it can't contact a domain
controller. There is no option available to logon on to 'This Computer'.

The only user available is the Administrator account and the local
account appears to have a blank password, but then it tries to
authenticate with a domain controller.

One of the password changer's pointed it out as blank. Using ERD2003 I
searched thru the registry and found the ComputerName to now be
'MACHINENAME' and trying to logon with MACHINENAME/Administrator with a
blank password gave me a different error, still not allowing me to logon,
but saying 'Check to be sure the username and domain are correct....'

Doesn't work in safe mode w/o network either.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

DS

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