Actually, I was never prompted to enter an Admin passwd. I just followed through with the boot floppies until I was directed to press R to get into the Recovery Console. Then I got to the command prompt and started to type in those commands, but was denied access.

For the hell of it, I started it again went to start an install instead of RC. Usually at that point it asks for the CD, and then it displays the available partitions. On that screen, it doesn't even recognize that XP is there. I believe it said, "Partition 1 (Unrecognized)". It said something about partition one either being corrupted or that it is in an unrecognized format.

Is it possible that the HD was wiped out by a virus or something? I know they had Norton on this machine but I'm just wondering if that might be possible?

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