Recovered from boot sector corruption - now can't login

Last week something caused corruption of the boot sector on my hard drive and
I was unable to start up my system (Vista Ultimate 32bit).

I ran the Vista Recovery process and picked the option that fixes startup
problems. The first time it didn't help, but I ran it again and now the
machine boots up except for 2 things.

The login screen is at a very low resolution so maybe my graphics driver
needs to be reinstalled.

I'm positive I'm entering the right password, but Vista says its not correct.

I don't have a password recovery disk.

Does anyone know if there's a way I can login, or do I need to re-install
the OS over top of the corrupted one?

Thanks in advance.

"ALV" <ALV.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C9F23894-4949-444D-A95A-511CEAA164DF@microsoft.com...
> Last week something caused corruption of the boot sector on my hard drive
> and
> I was unable to start up my system (Vista Ultimate 32bit).
>
> I ran the Vista Recovery process and picked the option that fixes startup
> problems. The first time it didn't help, but I ran it again and now the
> machine boots up except for 2 things.
>
> The login screen is at a very low resolution so maybe my graphics driver
> needs to be reinstalled.
>
> I'm positive I'm entering the right password, but Vista says its not
> correct.
>
> I don't have a password recovery disk.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way I can login, or do I need to re-install
> the OS over top of the corrupted one?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I've tested this to change the password; it provides a file you use to
create a bootable CD or floppy disk which you then boot from to change your
password.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

-Paul Randall