I was having all kinds of trouble with my PC, so I (probably inappropriately)
used System Recovery to solve the problems. It went thought the whole process
and rebooted. However, when XP is booting up, I get an error message that
states "While trying to update a password, the return system indicates that
the value provided as the password is not correct." The system then starts
to reboot again, going throught the same loop over and over (reboot - error
message - reboot). I did not have my original XP disc. Have I just totally
fried my computer, or is there a chance for me to get all my stuff off of
this computer?

Ask your computer's manufacturer for an XP disk, then while your computer is
doing the reboot - error message - reboot, open your CD rom drive and insert
the XP disk. Then after your system detects the XP disk, XP will prepare the
setup and see that you already installed XP. There might be a Repair
Installation/Repair selection, choose that. XP will then start repairing
your installation. After it's done, take out the CD and reboot. If the logon
screen appears after it's done loading, then the repair was sucessful.
"homeinla" <homeinla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I was having all kinds of trouble with my PC, so I (probably
>inappropriately)
> used System Recovery to solve the problems. It went thought the whole
> process
> and rebooted. However, when XP is booting up, I get an error message that
> states "While trying to update a password, the return system indicates
> that
> the value provided as the password is not correct." The system then
> starts
> to reboot again, going throught the same loop over and over (reboot -
> error
> message - reboot). I did not have my original XP disc. Have I just totally
> fried my computer, or is there a chance for me to get all my stuff off of
> this computer?