Recovery console + empty Admin password? Monday, January 11, 2010 at 1:22 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by littlebigman (2 messages posted) Hello I used Clonezilla to save the XP partition #1 into an image file in partition #2, then played with Linux, and now I'd like to restore XP into partition #1. Problem is, the MBR is gone, so the PC won't boot. I booted with the XP CD, chose "Recovery" to launch the console so I can type "fixmbr"... but I'm prompted for the Administrator password... which is empty: When installing XP, I just hit Enter at this stage, then create a "Joe" account. I tried both (hitting Enter, typing the password for Joe), to no avail. Does someone know why XP won't accept any of this, and what to do? Thank you. Responses to this message: re: Recovery console + empty Admin password? (Steve: Monday, January 11, 2010 at 6:33 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Recovery console + empty Admin password? (littlebigman: Mon, Jan 11, 2010, 1:22 am) re: Recovery console + empty Admin password? (Steve: Mon, Jan 11, 2010, 6:33 am) re: Recovery console + empty Admin password? (littlebigman: Mon, Jan 11, 2010, 6:57 am) re: Recovery console + empty Admin password? (Steve: Mon, Jan 11, 2010, 7:01 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum