ran media center on another PC - now it wants a Pword???

[dave_s13]

Got my older PC out cos it has loads of photos and films on it I want to view using my Xbox360.

I ran Mediacenter and messed around for a bit, it crashed, I reboot the PC and now it wants a log on password!!??? It never had one before just booted straight into windows?

The username defaults to Administrator but putting in 'password' or 'administrator' doesn't work.

Any ideas how to get round it???

[tycho]

This seems good.

They say that you can get your password in 48 hours for nothing or can pay to get it immediately.

EBCD looks quite good, it is a live linux cd which has ntfs drivers and can decrypt your xp passwords.
This and a few other options are here

[Scraggles]

take the photos onto another pc, format the boot drive after saving other important files

get a notebook and write down admin passwords