1337haxor

I messed up my windows xp master boot record trying to get rid of linux and now my system won't boot. I've tried to use my winxp cd and to get into the repair console, but it asks for an administrator password and I never set one. Whats another way to repair it?

Thanks,
Robert

Lasereth

My friend tried to do the same thing with the repair console, and it asked him for the adminstrator password as well. He never fucking set one! We just sat there confused. He ended up formatting because of it. Sorry that I can't help, just wanted to let ya know that I've seen the admin password thing you're talking about.

-Lasereth

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glytch

(Stupid obvious question) If you didn't set an admin password, when it asked you for one, did you try just leaving it blank?

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1337haxor

Yes I did and it didn't work.
I found a solution. This is a bug in WinXP and there was a work around on msft's site.

-Robert

Kadath

Well, I wish you would post it. My solution when dealing with this sort of thing is:
Kill power while XP is booting. That gets you to the same "Boot Options" menu you can get with F8 under Win2K.

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1337haxor

Here was the work around:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308402

-Robert

Dilbert1234567

i think the command is FIXMBR in the recovery consol, try typeing help and it may give you a list of commands

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