Xp home upgrade tries to logon to domain?

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Just installed a Windows XP home upgrade on a Win 98 SE system. Did not
install well, had to do a repair install on the install process?

Once that finished, the boot process takes me to a user id logon screen
where it asks for a password (passwords are blank) and then says "Logon
Message - System cannot log you on due to the following error: The
specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted" .

If I try safe mode I get the same thing. Does same thing with any user id
including administrator. Am unable to logon to XP. Can't get back to Win98
SE either.


How do I get it to not try to connect to a domain and just boot normally?
 
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"W Robert Taylor" <wroberttaylor@qwest.net> wrote:

>Just installed a Windows XP home upgrade on a Win 98 SE system. Did not
>install well, had to do a repair install on the install process?
>
>Once that finished, the boot process takes me to a user id logon screen
>where it asks for a password (passwords are blank) and then says "Logon
>Message - System cannot log you on due to the following error: The
>specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted" .
>
>If I try safe mode I get the same thing. Does same thing with any user id
>including administrator. Am unable to logon to XP. Can't get back to Win98
>SE either.

I would start over. Upgrade installations may lead to worse results.
Backup your personal data files, reinstall Windows XP clean on this
disk. Then reinstall your applicatons and restore the data.

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