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MegaBite - 03 May 2008 03:29 GMT

Have a Gateway Tablet Laptop. It has suddenly started asking for a User ID
and Password to login to Windows XP. The word "Owner" appears in the User ID
slot.

Never set this up & it rejects all password. Completely locked out of system.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

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Andrew E. - 03 May 2008 05:59 GMT

Usually pressing the "enter key" will work if no password was created.
Otherwise,tap the F8 key on pc start,select safe-mode,enter xp as
administrator,
in xp,open user accounts & edit xp start.

> Have a Gateway Tablet Laptop. It has suddenly started asking for a User ID
> and Password to login to Windows XP. The word "Owner" appears in the User ID
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>
> Thanks

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MegaBite - 04 May 2008 21:23 GMT

> Usually pressing the "enter key" will work if no password was created.
> Otherwise,tap the F8 key on pc start,select safe-mode,enter xp as
> administrator,
> in xp,open user accounts & edit xp start.

Booted up in Safe Mode. Still asks for the "Owner" login. No entries for
the Password, including a blank entry, wosrk. Still locked out.

Ran a virus scan from a bootable Symntec anti-virus disk.

Started to re-install XP, but system says it cannot find the hard drive, yet
system will boot into Safe Mode. Sounds like boot track is corrupted, but
can it be corrected?

> > Have a Gateway Tablet Laptop. It has suddenly started asking for a User ID
> > and Password to login to Windows XP. The word "Owner" appears in the User ID
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> >
> > Thanks

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