I have formatted my C Drive which earlier had windows 95 and installed windows xp.
After installation, Im not able to login to windows at all. It asks for the user name and password to login. During installation, the system asked for user names which could be used to login. I have not given any password at that time,as the system did not ask for any.

Now, the user name that I had given during installation is listed and when I click that,Im asked for a password to login,which I donot have. I get a message "The system could not log you in. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."
I have even re-installed a couple of times. I still get the same message.
Pls. kindly advise asap as I very urgently need to get into the system.

Thanks
Selva

Start again & use this.

WIPE OUT
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
Freeware.
WIPE OUT: as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those
times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have
left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data
from the Hard Drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk, make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy 1st.
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter.

Now run fdisk to set up partitions.
When done, reboot & format.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

From what I understand in your response is that, it would completely delete all partitions and clean everything.

However, in my case, I want to format only C drive and not D drive as I have some data in it. Also, there is another hard drive (secondary) connected to the system which also has data in it. By using the above tool,will that also be wiped out?. Pls. advise.
Thanks and Regards
Selva.

Hi,

I also wanted to add up to the original message that, when I click the user name and press enter, I get the following message.

"The system could not log you in."

The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted"

"Please try again or contact your system administrator"

I hope this information would throw some light to the problem.

Pls. let me know for further information.

Thanks and Regards
Selva.

As long as you don't put D, E etc & stick to C, as per > wipeout c: /nq /np

I would uncable the 2nd HD & all your important stuff should be backed up. ( Murphy's law )

wipeout c: /nq /np ---meaning of this execution is that, all the drives in my HD(partitioned)will it be erased? ex: c:, e:

thanks..reply also to my email add..ty

dolfus, if you have only one hard drive installed, yes all partitions will be wiped.