Well here is my problem, I recently had a power outage and it caused a failure with the XP installed on my hard drive.
I can still take the drive to another pc and view all the contents fine, all the folders and everything else is intact. the only problem is when i try to boot from it, i get an error that no operating system is present.
so what i decided to try first is run the recovery/repair system from my XP disc. well it picks up the windows isntall on the drive and lsits it as an option to boot into. the only problem is that it asks for an admin pass. It wont take the pass that I know I last used for admin access to the system. Ive treid about every pass I can think of that it might have been but no such luck. Is there anyway i can recover the admin pass or reset it so i can access it? i assume the admin pass is stored somewhere on the drive, perhaps i could access it on another pc just viewing its contents.
any ideas would be appreciated.
I can still take the drive to another pc and view all the contents fine, all the folders and everything else is intact. the only problem is when i try to boot from it, i get an error that no operating system is present.
so what i decided to try first is run the recovery/repair system from my XP disc. well it picks up the windows isntall on the drive and lsits it as an option to boot into. the only problem is that it asks for an admin pass. It wont take the pass that I know I last used for admin access to the system. Ive treid about every pass I can think of that it might have been but no such luck. Is there anyway i can recover the admin pass or reset it so i can access it? i assume the admin pass is stored somewhere on the drive, perhaps i could access it on another pc just viewing its contents.
any ideas would be appreciated.