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| Thread ID: 28016 | 2002-12-09 01:56:00 | Win XP Pro - boot to dos | Dolby Digital (160) | Press F1 |
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| 104359 | 2002-12-09 01:56:00 | I have in front of me one Toshiba laptop with Win XP Pro. Now it won't boot to Windows as it has a problem with a dll (we won't go into that!!). Anyway I have booted from the install cd and have gone into Recovery mode. Problem is its wants the admin password. Thats fine if I knew it (its not my pc)... I am trying to find it but things are not looking good. Is there any other way to get the machine up with a NTFS partition to rename a file so Windows is happy again. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 104360 | 2002-12-09 02:01:00 | You could try Knoppix, but I think its read only.... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 104361 | 2002-12-09 03:36:00 | I did cross my mind about one of the Linux'es... | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 104362 | 2002-12-09 03:54:00 | Try umount /dev/hda1 mount -t auto -o rw /dev/hda1 (There's a "remount"option to mount which avoids the unmounting, but I can't think of the exact syntax offhand.) It might work for NTFS now. The early versions of the fs were read only, but I'm sure they have made it work both ways. However, Knoppix will mount MS disks read-only by default for a good reason: it stops accidental damage. As soon as you write to an other OS's files, you are doing something dangerous. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 104363 | 2002-12-09 06:59:00 | If you have a spare US$300 that just happens to be lying around, then this bit of software is just made for you. :D www.winternals.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 104364 | 2002-12-09 08:20:00 | Corrupted file, unable to start the Recovery console because of no Administrator password - you really want to now what to do? An observant person would conclude that they don't really know what to do . A knowledgeable person would reinstall Windows into a different directory, backup the entire drive, test the backup, format the existing drive, reinstall the OS from scratch, install required application software and then implement necessary security features to safeguard the Administrator account . Now, eany meany miney moo . . . . . |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 104365 | 2002-12-09 08:34:00 | The dll you mention may be the problem. If it's HAL.DLL I have just gone through the same thing. My problem was that Windows XP could not find HAL.DLL as the BOOT.INI file was corrupted. You can find answers to this problem if you type the dll file name into a search engine (google) | Manny (2728) | ||
| 104366 | 2002-12-09 08:57:00 | if u get "NTLDR missing" when u start up then u have a corrupter boot sector and the NTLDR (NTL Directory) folder has been removed, if u do get this then reply back because the same thing happened to me and i rememdied it. The essentials things u can do at the moment is copy boot.ini from the root of the winxp cd to a floppy along with the missing/corrupted file. The cd contains all the original files so this shouldn't be a problem for u. Then just boot from the floppy drive, it should work, i'm not sure cos i haven't played with the winxp cd files for a while. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 104367 | 2002-12-09 08:57:00 | if u get "NTLDR missing" when u start up then u have a corrupter boot sector and the NTLDR (NTL Directory) folder has been removed, if u do get this then reply back because the same thing happened to me and i rememdied it. The essentials things u can do at the moment is copy boot.ini from the root of the winxp cd to a floppy along with the missing/corrupted file. The cd contains all the original files so this shouldn't be a problem for u. Then just boot from the floppy drive, it should work, i'm not sure cos i haven't played with the winxp cd files for a while. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 104368 | 2002-12-09 08:59:00 | sorry for the double post guys. :) | vk_dre (195) | ||
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