Doing the impossible.

[Ami]

You know how Microsoft says you can't disable or delete
all administrator profiles? They lie.
My boyfriend's uncle set himself as the administrator and
disabled the old administrator default. When he gave the
computer to my boyfriend and my boyfriend changed the
users to his own accounts, he looked away from the
computer before giving one of his accounts administrator
status and after deleting his uncle's old account (the
last remaining active administrator). Now, there are no
accounts with administrator status and we cannot re-
install Windows XP and boot from the CD because it is not
recognizing it. It reads it just fine in windows and
simply says we cannot access it. So...now what?

 

[Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)]

Boot to safe mode and access the default Administrator account.
This account does not appear in normal mode and it CANNOT be deleted

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Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User)
Associate Expert
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
Expert Zone -
It can be accessed in normal mode of XP pro by logging off --then press
ctrl-alt-del-del at the login screen to bring up the classic logon screen.
Type Administrator for user name and enter the password assigned to the
default admin account during installation.