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Don't have the administrative password for XP Pro
I am in the XP recovery console and I am stuck from going further because I do not have the password. I can't get into my drive to change it because it will not boot. I am somewhat painted into a corner. I thought there was a work-a-round process to either get a password or circumvent it all together. I am having an issue with a "Boot Manager is Compressed" error so it won't let me access my main drive.
I really created a mess here and I hope someone can help me sort through it. I got vista ultimate and I wanted to set it up on my computer along with XP Pro. The Os's would be on separate hard drives. What I did was clear out an existing hard drive and cleared out the partition so it was an unpartitioned space. I shut down the computer with the boot disc in it, restarted and it seemed to install fine. I selected the unpartitioned space the installations went through all the motions and what seemed like its last reboot it starts to install all over again. That's when I get errors like "boot manager is compressed. I disabled the drive that vista was installed on so I can get back into my XP program and I get the "boot manager is compressed" message also. I have a hyperthreading 3.4 ghz processer 3 gig of ram. I had heard that anything more than 2 gig screws up the Vista install, however this one seemed like it went all the way through untill it started reinstalling of course. I tried using the Vista disc to repair the boot problem but it never gives me the opprotunity because it goes straight to the installation mode. Any suggestions?
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06-02-2009
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