My Win XP operated machine has suddenly developed a problem - It starts to boot up, 
then just after the login screen it says that the system has been stopped "To prevent 
damage to the system". If I try and boot up from the Win XP disk and use the R (repair) 
option, it asks for an administrator password. I'm sure I have put the correct password 
in (and I've tried a few variations) but it keeps saying "invalid".
Do you have any suggestions for getting round this problem? I would have like to 
boot up into "dos" but, unlike Win 98, I can't get a dos window to run CHKDSK (In 
case of some HDD fault).
Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
Ian

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you might double check your password since it should be case sensitive, XP does not use dos at all. So it won't do you any good that way. Worse case would be a complate reload?


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 6:10 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:

>My Win XP operated machine has suddenly developed a problem - It starts to boot 
up, 
>then just after the login screen it says that the system has been stopped "To prevent 
>damage to the system". If I try and boot up from the Win XP disk and use the R (repair) 
>option, it asks for an administrator password. I'm sure I have put the correct password 
>in (and I've tried a few variations) but it keeps saying "invalid".
>Do you have any suggestions for getting round this problem? I would have like to 
>boot up into "dos" but, unlike Win 98, I can't get a dos window to run CHKDSK (In 
>case of some HDD fault).
>Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
>Ian

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I would only use the complete re-installation as a last resort as the HDD has all 
my letters and e-mails on it.
I did try the capitals and lower case - still said "Invalid Password" and the irritation 
is three strikes and you have to re-boot. Bummer!
Ian






On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 7:14 pm, marc wrote:
>you might double check your password since it should be case sensitive, XP does 
not 
>use dos at all. So it won't do you any good that way. Worse case would be a complate 
>reload?
>
>

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Try hit the F8 key before windows boot.
Login using "Last Known Good Configuration" or "Save Mode with Command Prompt" then restore your computer system to the state before the problem started.
I'd ever have the same problem in the past when installing Roxio Easy CD Creator.
It's important to uninstall what ever programs you installed between restore point time and current time before applying System Restore.
Good Luck.

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I finally found out the problem - absurdly simple and irritatingly obscure - I just 
set the BIOS to "Fail Safe Defaults" and everything started working again. Ridiculous 
- Microsoft had nothing about this on their "(UN)Knowledge base"
That's for the advice anyway.
Reagrds,
Ian






On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 8:32 pm, Yap wrote:
>Try hit the F8 key before windows boot.

>Login using "Last Known Good Configuration" or "Save Mode with Command Prompt" then 
>restore your computer system to the state before the problem started.

>I'd ever have the same problem in the past when installing Roxio Easy CD Creator.

>It's important to uninstall what ever programs you installed between restore point 
>time and current time before applying System Restore.

>Good Luck.

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Do realize that if the "fix" was to change the BIOS settings, then it may have been that the problem was not XP itself, but something more fundamental in your computer? Be honest, have you ever heard of a BIOS chaning itself (except for the rarest of viruses)? So, why did you have to make any changes? Suggestions for the future: (1) Define a second user on the PC, with full administrative rights, and a simple password. Write it down, in several places. (2) Make some plan to backup your pesonal files. You got away easy this time. Learn from the experience. Depending on the volume of files, CDs are good. Or, a USB 2.0 external hard drive is faster for multiple Gigs. (3) If you are unsure that you can do a repair of XP, get some system backup software, like Norton GHOST. Also useful for hardrive crashes. (4) If your disk is FAT32, you could have used DOS to copy files from it. But if NTFS, get an NTFS driver for DOS, and put it on a 98 or ME boot disk. One is free from http://www.winternals.com/. However, it only reads/copies FROM NTFS to FAT32. Their write on NTFS version costs money.


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 10:11 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:

>
>I finally found out the problem - absurdly simple and irritatingly obscure - I just 
>set the BIOS to "Fail Safe Defaults" and everything started working again. Ridiculous 
>- Microsoft had nothing about this on their "(UN)Knowledge base"
>That's for the advice anyway.
>Reagrds,
>Ian
>
>

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This is an interesting thread, however you can build boot floppies for both Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro. Its six floppies for XP. I don't remember exactly what you can do with them. I used the XP Pro floppies to install XP on a PC with SCSI CD ROM that didn't want to be a boot device, very old BIOS. The boot floppies can be downloaded from a Microsoft site. Don't remenber which site.


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 6:10 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:

>My Win XP operated machine has suddenly developed a problem - It starts to boot 
up, 
>then just after the login screen it says that the system has been stopped "To prevent 
>damage to the system". If I try and boot up from the Win XP disk and use the R (repair) 
>option, it asks for an administrator password. I'm sure I have put the correct password 
>in (and I've tried a few variations) but it keeps saying "invalid".
>Do you have any suggestions for getting round this problem? I would have like to 
>boot up into "dos" but, unlike Win 98, I can't get a dos window to run CHKDSK (In 
>case of some HDD fault).
>Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
>Ian

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Ok, had a similar experience,but i never actually had a password!!!!!!!!!1however the only resolve was to reinstall xp, not wishing to lose my existing data i chose to boot off the cd,hit the "install windows", on the prompt"xp does not recommend installing a further copy on the C:\WINDOWS" I set up a new directory called C:\windows2 and let the install go...well pc booted up showing dual boot,launched into c:\windows2 and presto everything there intact except e-mail stuff,reload of programmes...and back in business


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 6:10 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:

>My Win XP operated machine has suddenly developed a problem - It starts to boot 
up, 
>then just after the login screen it says that the system has been stopped "To prevent 
>damage to the system". If I try and boot up from the Win XP disk and use the R (repair) 
>option, it asks for an administrator password. I'm sure I have put the correct password 
>in (and I've tried a few variations) but it keeps saying "invalid".
>Do you have any suggestions for getting round this problem? I would have like to 
>boot up into "dos" but, unlike Win 98, I can't get a dos window to run CHKDSK (In 
>case of some HDD fault).
>Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
>Ian

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Quite a weird situation. I went back into the computer's BIOS and simply set everything to "Fail safe defaults" - it started working afterwards - no problems since. I'll never understand Windows XP...... Ian


On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 10:55 am, Steve wrote:
>Ok,
>had a similar experience,but i never actually had a password!!!!!!!!!1however the
>only resolve was to reinstall xp, not wishing to lose my existing data i chose to
>boot off the cd,hit the "install windows", on the prompt"xp does not recommend installing
>a further copy on the C:\WINDOWS" I set up a new directory called C:\windows2 and
>let the install go...well pc booted up showing dual boot,launched into c:\windows2
>and presto everything there intact except e-mail stuff,reload of programmes...and
>back in business
>

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Hello i also had this problem . You see there is a file in windows Xp called SVCHOST.exe i thought it was a virus cause it really takes up the memory. So what you need to do is replace it back into c:\windows\system32 file. Also the admin password is normally just blank so just press enter because its NOT the same as your windows password.


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 7:14 pm, marco wrote:
>you might double check your password since it should be case sensitive, XP does not
>use dos at all. So it won't do you any good that way. Worse case would be a complate
>reload?
>
>

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IAN, Can you help me? I'm experiencing the same exact problem as you. I'm attempting to do a repair utilizing the windows xp pro cd (even though my comp has windowsxphome) and when i get to that point it asks me for adminstrative password and nothing works. Can you tell me exactly what you did to repair this problem? I apologize in advance for not being very computer knowledgable however if you can help me i'd really appreciate it


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 10:11 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:
>
>
>I finally found out the problem - absurdly simple and irritatingly obscure - I just
>set the BIOS to "Fail Safe Defaults" and everything started working again. Ridiculous
>- Microsoft had nothing about this on their "(UN)Knowledge base"
>That's for the advice anyway.
>Reagrds,
>Ian
>
>

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VERY EASY. You're going into the repair console too early. Simply don't elect for "REPAIR" at that stage, carry on and click "install windows", THEN press F8 (ie accept the agreement, then you'll be given the opportunity to REPAIR on the next page. No administrator password is required. You will have to use the Product key, though. Do understand, though, that Reapir often doesn't work. It might be best to use Windows Install Clean Up (you can download it from Microsoft.com) and first make sure that you don't have any conflicting registry entries. PCSurgeon's registry check is reasonably good and not too aggressive in chpping out registry entries. You might try that after running Windows Install Cean Up. (But only do this if you have a working knowledge of registries. (it can be a bit of a minefield, if it's not used properly). Hope this helps, Ian PS, if all this fails - copy all your downloaded executable files and documents to another hard drive and fully re-install Windows - you can do this without re-formatting the C drive. It's not really a big deal and virtually guarantees that all the rubbish which is clogging up your computer is removed.


On Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 3:54 pm, AldoV wrote:
>IAN,
>
>Can you help me? I'm experiencing the same exact problem as you. I'm attempting to
>do a repair utilizing the windows xp pro cd (even though my comp has windowsxphome)
>and when i get to that point it asks me for adminstrative password and nothing works.
>Can you tell me exactly what you did to repair this problem? I apologize in advance
>for not being very computer knowledgable however if you can help me i'd really appreciate
>it
>
>
>

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