O.K Guys.

I have a problem here.

I bought a P.C from packard bell (Knackard Hell more like.)

Running Windows XP Home

It has a problem with the NTFS but when I tried to boot into recovery mode it asks me for the administrator password.

After some 30 minutes on the phone to packard bell support team (flow chart readers) then speaking to the guys there who actually install the software (pretty clever) then the engineering manager I still haven't been able to get the administrator password.

Its not that they are unwilling to supply it they just don't know it.

(they supplied me with a list of about 50 other passwords for there machines if anyone else is having any other PB issues.)

Is there any way in which short of re-installing I can boot the machine into recovery mode or any way of removing the administrator password from the machine.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.