Good thing i did my research first. I was already planning to reformat my harddisk. This save me much the trouble. Thank you very much to the solution providers!! Hi, i follow all instructions…but when i restarted my pc, the screen went black :S any help?
It gave me some trouble here so I went directly to the boot file. I am trying to fix promblem boot. Thank you so much for this info! It worked perfectly, just as instructed. No luck! My Dell came with no Windows XP discs, but just a note to say the discs were not needed, because the Windows software was all pre-installed on my hard drive. Not much help when the hal. Hey all. I was working on an acer that required windows xp be reinstalled. Anyway, with this installation I had the hal.
Thanks to this post and others I have come to understand things a lot clearer. Take the second option GUI from here on the list of choices and you should be good to go. Worked for me. Now I understand the usb install better. What a clutz? Well not anymore. I hope this helps someone. Got to your Start menu and select Run option. Type in msconfig command and click OK.
MS says you can't crack an Administrator password. Good - you don't want to do that anyway. Cracking passwords takes a long time on XP and forever on Windows 7. You never want to try to crack the password, or change it or reset it - you just want to clear it so there is no password, and that takes about 10 seconds using the methods you hopefully know about it or Internet tools you can research.
You just want to "clear" it MS Says you can't crack passwords. Since you are just clearing the password and not cracking it, you should be fine using your methods that you know about right? You are not cracking the password - you are clearing the password. Those are not the same things so you are in no violation of the MS rules about password cracking.
That tells us that whoever came up with that statement has no clue about cracking, hacking, reseting or clearing passwords. Probably little clue about XP in general except the ability to spell it properly. But, you know what they meant to say If you can't get into the Recovery Console because of an Administrator password, you can use something like a Hiren's CD to clear the password of course, or you could just edit the registry to tell XP that the Recovery Console does not require a password and then it won't even ask you.
Use Hiren's or something like it that has a remote registry editor and edit the registry on the machine to tell XP that the Recovery Console does not require a password. You haven't touched the Administrator password. Whatever the password was is still there.
All you have done is told the Recovery Console not to ask for one. Now you can fix it That is an easy one to test on your system. Flip back and forth and see how it works. I'm always set for no password required for Recovery Console since it saves me a keystroke - even with an empty Administrator password. This site in other languages x. You can bring up your hard disk in another system and copy those three files back onto it. Take it back to the original computer and it should boot up.
I have gone as far as copying them from a similar system, and playing with the boot. SNGX said:. Click to expand Okay, downloaded the free memtest file, burned it to a cd on another computer. Put it in the computer with the problem, after disconnecting my hard drive, and I just get the message that the boot disk or operating system cannot be found.
Oh, and before all this happened, I did not hear any unusual noises from my hard drive. Used my computer last night, this morning this happens. I am dearly hoping it is not my hard drive. Buying one is not the problem. It is the data that I have put in since my last backup. Another question, if the hard drive is not completely trashed, what would be the easiest way to get the data off of the hard drive? Dave, Sorry dude you just said it "I did hear unusual noises from my hard drive" Best thing to try at this point is getting your data off before it fails.
Image the new HDD and move your data and you will be back in biz. No problem, hope it helps. Hey there Dont toss that hdd just yet Ive serviced many computers with this same problem it is in fact as stated fairly common. You can try a couple things here dont disconnect the HDD leave it as was originaly. You can also make a Boot disk which in fact has all the files necessary to boot into windows google this process as it is fairly simple and only requires a floppy although theres is a way to use a flash drive a bit more complicated though Not to worry as there are only a few files needed for the process and you can download a package as well as a tutorial just google it my friend.
Let me know if this was of any use to you. Your optical drive is the likely suspect. Similar threads S.
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