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August 25th, 2008 23:00

dell dimension 8300 windows xp home

I am trying to do an OS  repair with the windows installation disk

that came with the computer and I get a prompt for windows recovery

console password.  what is the password?

  • OrdinaryMAN

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    Posted August 26th, 2008 05:00

    3 things:

     

    1. the password is usually blank. Just hit enter and it will take you to the command prompt. If not then it's the administrator's password. But usually people leave it blank.

     

    2. Don't know what's going on with your system but the recovery console is just a command prompt environment to run different commands not for an OS Repair.

     

    3. If you do an actual OS Repair then you are setting yourself up for errors, problems, etc in the future. You should never do one because it could make the OS unstable down the road unless it's for temporary reasons like backing up data or something of that nature.

     

    Hope that helps out.