Gerry
Mon May 05 02:02:12 PDT 2008
Tonny
What you propose to do is eminently sensible.
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Regards.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Tonny wrote:
> Thanks Gerry, I'll try it later on today. I'm thinking of first
> getting an external hard drive enclosure or something so I can plug
> the notebook drive into my good computer and see if I can access info
> on the drive, or at least copy the necessary files I need. I'm
> guessing that the computer could have powered down when the registry
> wasn't finished and now it thinks I should be entering a password
> when I never had one turned on before. Another reason I back
> everything up now on an external drive! Hopefully your recommendation
> works, I'll follow up if it does.
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Tonny
>>
>> How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP
>> from starting
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
>>
>> Registry troubleshooting steps for advanced users
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822705
>>
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>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
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>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
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>> Tonny wrote:
>>> My notebook impromperly shut down and the next time I restarted it,
>>> I was asked for a password. Unlike some logins where you pick the
>>> admin icon or guest icon, I only have user login name and password
>>> field to enter. I tried it with no password and the only known one
>>> I ever programmed. I don't remember an admin password ever being
>>> set. I tried to do the Safe Mode startup as recommended on this
>>> forum and then selected XP Pro as my program. All of a sudden I get
>>> a black screen with:
>>> multi(0)disk(0rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\system32\*******.sys
>>> being repeated all the way down the screen, the ******* being
>>> different types of system files. Anyone have an idea of what I
>>> screwed up? Thanks for the help.