I've crashed! Plz help (XP)

[jmebonner]

Well, I'm an idiot, just like in the post I started last night

I needed a cd out of a drive, so I plugged it into the power on my main computer. While it was on.

When I turn it on now, It tells me to select a user, like normal.. Only problem is there are no users to select from. I tried safe mode, I tried clearing the cmos, I tried recovery console.

Problem w/ the recovery is that it asks for an admin password. I never entered one when I set it up! Is there a default admin password? If not, then am I just totally hammered?

On a side note:

If I end up having to reinstall, someone please point me to a tut that will tell me how to put xp on a different partition than all my other files. (I know, I know, closing the barn door after the horse got out).

Thanks,

your fellow imoer,

jmemoron

[NDC]

Sounds like you may have done permenant damage to your CDROM drive. Hot-plugging a drive usually brings bad news. Hopefully this action didn't damaag anthing else on the system..

[NDC]

Oops...

[jmebonner]

It's not the drive I'm worried about
It didn't work in the first place, that's why I took it out w/ the disk still in. I'd rather lose the drive than all my info too.
Everything else still seems functional, all the drives and the processor and stuff are still normal.

[pickel]

Use your hardrive's software tp partition the drive. Then install XP on the primary partiton and use the other(s) for your programs files.

[jmebonner]

how large should I make the xp partition?
It'll just show as a C: and D; drive, correct? Then I just put all my garbage on the d:, drivers and evrything and leave the c: only for windows updates and the like?