Deleted Admin Account, help

tictactoe2004

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Hello everyone.

At this point i'm in over my head and have a PC that has pictures I cannot lose. I am usually fairly good with PC stuff but I wanted to stop before things got any worse (if thats even possible at this point).

I have a WHS and was having problems accessing the share directory from my Office PC. After some digging in google I found a link that I thought would fix my problem, this is where things started to get bad. I thought the problem had something to do with the fact that I had two accounts on my office PC, one named Mark and one named Guest. I also have those same accounts on my WHS. Every time I tried to log access the Shared directory on my WHS it would constantly ask me for a name and password and the only one that worked is the main Administrator account set up on the WHS.

I found a link that told me to change the names of my accounts on my office PC to something different than the names of my "Mark" account that I have on my WHS.

At the time on the PC I had an account named guest with no admin privaleges and an account name Mark with admin privalges. I used the line "control userpasswords2" from the "run" box in Vista. I made the guest account Admin and deleted the "Mark" account. I then deleted the password on the Guest account. I guess I must have accidentally checked the box that says users must log on with a name and password by mistake.

Now when I try to log onto my PC the default login name is "Mark" even though I deleted the account. If I change my login name to "Guest" it tells me "You cannot log on because the logon method you are using is not allowed on this computer. Please see your network adminstrator for more information."

If I try to log in with "Administrator" it tells me "Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator."

So there is no password with the account "Mark", the account shouldnt even exist any more.

I can't log in with Guest or Administrator. At this point all I care about is getting the pictures of my three month old child off the PC as they are the only place I have copies of them. This whole thing was being done to get my WHS working properly to have backup copies of my photos, now I have nothing.

Please please please help. I cannot lose these photos.

I can't even get into safe mode with command prompt, it keeps goes to the grahpical windows login even when I select that option.
 

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OK, we at the forum will give all the help that we can. Its Christmas time, too, so I will treat you as well as I can
First try with the hidden administrator
of you can access it
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html?filter[2]=User Accounts
if not
Read this and understand before you try.
You will be installing another OS that will hopefully allow you access to the pics.
Try this also
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html
Not really meant for this situation, but you can try recuva.
I truly wish you my best.
Understand, after you get the pics a reinstall may be necessary. I know how bad you must feel, and Im sorry

Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To Geek
When a computer is not working
The Ubuntu is a last step since if it does not work it may make things even more difficult.
I am currently researching alternative methods.
 
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Thx for the reply.

Today i'm going to go pick up a new hard drive, I need more storage anyways. I'm going to re-install the O/S on the new drive and see how much of the data I can just pull off the ond one when it's in a slave configuration. I'm hoping I can grab most of it, I guess we'll see.
 

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That should work just fine. You should be able to get everything you need.

Good luck!
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inc. MP061 Inspiron E1705
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    2.00 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo 64 kilobyte primary memory
    Motherboard
    Board: Dell Inc. 0YD479 Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
    Memory
    2046 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) [Di
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    SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
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    Generic PnP Monitor (17.2"vis)
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    1920 x 1200 pixels
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    Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n SB2411SJGLLRMB, rev SB4OC74P, SMART Status: Healthy
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    Chassis Serial Number: 5YK95C1
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    Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse
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    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
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    1958 Kbps download ; 754.8 Kbps upload
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Yes, I think that the advice will work. Good luck
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
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