No computer and no internet access make Erilyn something something

[erilyn]

My home computer remains dead. Weep for me!

We managed to make the changes in the BIOS and boot from the WinXP cd-rom, and go in to make repairs (because a file is corruped, ntfs.sys or something), but then we get asked for the Administrator password. We almost certainly wouldn't have set a password, but null doesn't work. Nor does everything else we've tried - spaces, admin, password, administrator, people's names, pet's names, default, passwords I tend to use - nothing.

Our IT manager has suggested a few things, but we're going to have to take it out to the supplier, which we probably won't do til Friday. So if you need to contact me, I'll be checking lj and email only while I'm at work.

Grrr...really not happy :(

Comments

[lordriffington.livejournal.com]

Eeek! :(
*hugs and computer-worky vibes*

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*cries for Erilyn*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I had that problem, with it asking for a password I'd never set. Phil fixed it. I don't remember how, though. He had to do something to it, or we couldn't get to the BIOS to install the new hard drive.

[nic]

Same thing happened to me last year - I needed the administrator password. At some techie-forum online I was able to download a program which overwrites admin passwords in windows.

Can't remember what it was called, but if you do a search on something like "password crack" you might be lucky?