Ok, bear with me....this is my "BOSS'S" COMPUTER. At the log in screen it says his name, or admin...either when you log on says saving settings, then in a split second logs off. I researched and put in windows CD, went to recovery console and it now wants administrator password, which the admin password won't work. It seems that administrator just popped up there, no password works. Can't get into safe mode either, logs on logs off. So, booted from windows CD again, hit F8, did repair, it loaded files, then it wanted to load windows, i took out cd, hit Shift F10, and it brought up the users on the system, all it had was Guest, Boss, and Admin, no administrator. Any thoughts, and by the way, please tell me i didn't wipe out his hard drive. never formatted. thanks
Whenever I can't logon to windows for whatever reason, I always use a bootcd to reset the password. I don't even try to fix the problem, the reset usually fixes it and I can disable the password or make a new password once the computer boots up. Once you get the computer to bootup it's easier to troubleshoot. It would be a good idea to do an image backup of the hard drive so you don't lose anything. I've never had any problems, but it's good insurance just in case. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
