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by peter_kint

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I'm trying to use the Windows XP Recovery Console on my home PC.

I KNOW that the administrator password is blank (none). (I even checked this with password recovery tools etc...)

He keeps telling me it's the wrong password, so I cant go on.

How to solve this???

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by ic-it

This is caused by the OEM using Sysprep to prepare their image (ran into this a few years ago). The solution I used was to download the file to create the XP Home boot floppies. You can use just 1 floppy because the file you need is extracted last.
Once you have the last floppy, copy the file Spcmdcon.sys into the Cmdcon folder.

Another option that MAY work is to edit the registry to not require a recovery console logon.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312149

Boot Disk.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ojepn

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