Xp recovery console don't know admin password

Hi Don1400,
well if you dont have the administrator password you cant do something. you must have it in order to use recovery console. what i would advise you instead is to repair the windows you will use your drivers but not your works. Sometimes when windows crashes you cant repair it and the only way is to format your computer.

Hope that this will help you.

Regards

Reboot your machine.

Press F8 before the Windows boot screen appears.

Do not press F5 as used on the NT/9x series of Windows.

You will be be prompted with a boot options menu.

Select the Start Windows in Safe Mode option.

Click through several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar 'Welcome' screen.

Note that this welcome screen is limited to 256 colors and 640x480 resolution because the primary graphics will have been set to the Windows Safe Mode software VGA adapter. You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows is running in Safe Mode.

Find the icon for the Administrator user. If the default settings of your system haven't been changed, there should be no password for this account.

The Safe Mode Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system.

Login as the admin.

Press Yes at the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode.

Continue on to the User Settings control panel. Here you can change any of the other passwords for user on the machine. Make any changes you want.

Reboot your computer. As long as you don't press any keys (i.e. F8) during the boot-up the computer will startup normally.

Login as the user for which you set the password.

I have a user whose computer won't boot into safe mode. Still want to use the recovery console. Now what?

Reset the admin password with a program like ERD Commander then proceed to the repair console.

i too have dell computer that i don't remember the password for the users and setup password. it will not bot the from the floppy or a cd. i have tried too everything. any suggestions....

I used the free Offline NT Password & Registry Editor tool to successfully reset the local admin password on my Windows PC using a bootdisk (simply follow the instructions in the site):
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

can someone please help me
my pc wont let me log on its crazing me and im going to chuck it out the window!!!! all help gratefully received

I have a dell PC with the checksum blue screen error. Trying to recover Windows from recivery CD prompts for type 1 for C: which I did. BUT then it asks for Admin pwd. I have a Admin user account, but it does not like the password. I never had a poweron password. I cant get to the PF8 safemode screen either. My goal here is to recover files from my desktop... which I cannot access to if I use the original HD as a slave drive. I need to be able to boot up using original HD with original settings. Suggestions welcome. Snoop Dogg.