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    Admin Password

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by shiftis, Jun 29, 2005.

  1. shiftis

    shiftis Notebook Enthusiast

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    I deleted a partition on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1681) and now I can't boot into windows. It says the file hal.dll is missing or corrupt. I looked around online and found some commands to use in the windows recovery console. Unfourtunatly when I boot into the console with my XP disc it asks for a administrator password. I do not know this password, nor did I ever create one. With my past experiences the admin password is by default blank, but the console does not accept this. Did acer make an admin password? If so, what is it?
     
    shiftis, Jun 29, 2005
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    xbcrguy182x Notebook Enthusiast

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    wow thats unusual...Try 000000 since its like the password for the acer recovery program.
     
    xbcrguy182x, Jul 1, 2005
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    shiftis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Turns out there was no password; windows was just screwed. I had to reformat. Thanks anyway.
     
    shiftis, Jul 9, 2005
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