# Pre-loaded winXP: when is Administrator password set?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-loaded-winxp-when-is-administrator-password-set/395783 "2007-03-13T19:23:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-loaded-winxp-when-is-administrator-password-set/395783/21 "2007-03-15T03:41:01Z")

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It’s something I’ve run accross and haven’t dealt with for at least a couple years. I’d tell you the exact cercumstances if I could. I think it was refusing to mount the partition mentioning something about the other drive was an XP operating system boot partition. Whatever it was, happened a couple times so I’ve learned to store favorites and outlook mail on a different ntfs partition to avoid having to restore from backups. I never store regular files to the boot partition, but some programs default to the boot partition, which I change them from after an install. Had I had the problem recently I’d better explain the problem. All I can say is I don’t know the exact steps that lead to the problem any longer. Maybe some patches have stopped the occurance. I haven’t had it happen in a couple years, because I prevented the need for my trying to read the old OS installed partition. I will post for you if I run accross the same thing again.

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