Ok..I really messed things up for myself...I use Windows XP Professional...heres the whole story:

One day when I went to restart to complete the uninstallation of a video codec pack (I don't think this has anything to do with my problem), after it loaded the BIOS I get:
NTLDR is missing:
press ctr+alt+del to restart

Now at first I thought this was just happening completely randomly because I thought I didn't do anything to my system, but then I realized that this might be the first time I was rebooting since I had moved my pagefile from my C drive to my F drive (which is just a slave drive).

However I found a way around this by choosing to boot up with the master slave drive in the boot menu...I have no idea why this would work but after I would choose that I would go to the windows loading screen and it would boot up fine.

Well when I checked my disks out in disk management in computer management I found that it seemed to think my C drive was disk 1 and my F drive was disk 0...I also figured it must think my C drive is the primary slave drive since thats what worked in the boot menu...Well anyways, I then came up with the dumb idea that maybe it was giving me the NTLDR error because the boot.ini file tried to boot up with disk 0 and it seemed to think my C drive was disk 1...well somehow i turned out to be wrong...I changed it, rebooted, and it still gave me the NTLDR error, however now it won't even let me boot in the other work-around way I found because now it gives me an error about my configuration being wrong when I try to do it that way...

So then I finally got my hands on my windows XP Pro CD (it hadn't been available to me until this point) and excitedly booted up with it and went to the recovery console...but it wants an administrative password And i have no idea what it is, blank doesn't work either. I have found various ways to retrieve my password or change it, but mostly all that don't involve me having to be logged in require that I download some program and put it on a floppy which presents another problem...

I have a floppy disk drive but it doesn't work for some reason...it never really has. When the bios loads and windows is about to start it has always said "diskette drive 0 seek failure" and doesn't even seem to recognize that it exists if I choose to boot up with it or anything...

So I don't know what to do...if theres any way I can recover or change my administrator password without a floppy drive or if you can tell me how to actually fix my floppy drive please do...(btw I opened up my computer and looked at it and it seems to be hooked up fine)...

help

UBCD4Win has several Password Tools on the CD, these will allow you to reset the admin password if you don't know it.

Have you tried just leaving the password blank for the admin password? Many installs never get one set.

How to perform a WinXP repair install have you tried doing a repair install? This may be your best option, note you will need your serial number to perform this option. You will also need to reinstall all winxp patches afterwards, if your copy of windows doesn't have SP2 integrated I strongly advise that you get a copy before you do the repair install and install SP2 before you go onto the internet.

This might help

Scroll half way down the page to"Alternate link",and check out some of these.

Yes I did (and I believe I mentioned it too) but it didn't work. And yes, I have SP 2 installed on it, however my CD doesn't have SP 2 on it, but I was only planning to find a way into the repair console and fix the boot.ini file... for now anyway. I might have to do the repair install to fix the NTLDR problem, but for now I just want to be able to get into Windows. :boh: So I'll try the UBCD4Win..thanks ;)

ok the boot cd worked great, I didn't even need to change my password or reset it, it had its own explorer and I just used that to change back my boot.ini file....so I can get in windows now the only remaining problem is my ntldr problem...

nvm I fixed my ntldr problem, it turns out when i was messing with my partitions before (I forgot about that) it made windows mess up and renumber my drives so it was looking on my F drive for my boot information, so i put a copy of my boot.ini, ntldr, and ntldrdetect.com to my f drive and changed the rdisk to the new correct number in the boot.ini and now it works