Help: XP Pro Admin Account Deleted! Only Guest Access

loca_mami13

Oct 24 2006, 05:16 PM

HELP Administrator account deleted, need help loggin in to my laptop!!! WIN XP PRO Service Pack 2?
My friend was using my laptop and she says she has no idea what she did but she somehow deleted my account (the only account) so now i can only login as a guest andI have no access to my music pictures. programs, homework nothing, and I have a Toshiba Portege' laptop, it has no floppy disk or cd drive no internet connection, so i have no idea how to fix this, I tried the ctrl+alt+del trick but it will not work the default admin, has a password and i have no idea what it is, I got this laptop used out of a classified ad, and have no way of contacting the person who sold it to me, Someone has to be able to help me please, I am pretty good with command prompt and regedit but since i can only logon as "GUEST" nothing will work, almost everything i try says access denied ERROR 5. please please help.

I have tried safe mode, i have tried command prompts, and regedit but the guest account is not allowed to do anything i keep getting an access denied message, the laptop does NOT HAVE A DISK DRIVE so i am screwed there, the computer did have 2 admin accounts mine and the default "hidden" one, mine got deleted and did not have a password enabled, and i do not know the password for the default one this is xp PRO so it doesnot work if you try to logon with no password, whoever installed the os had to make a password during setup. if anyone knows some way they can really help me, please email me at loca_mami13@yahoo.com

xboxrulz

Oct 24 2006, 10:20 PM

how did ur friend actually manage to do that. From my experience you can't delete the Administrator account ... try logging in as "Administrator"

xboxrulz

loca_mami13

Oct 25 2006, 09:15 AM

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Oct 24 2006, 03:20 PM)

how did ur friend actually manage to do that. From my experience you can't delete the Administrator account ... try logging in as "Administrator"

xboxrulz

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THAT, without a password, i tried guessing the password, it will not work.
she deleted the only account which was an administrator account, i found the DEFAULT ADMINISTRATOR account by using regedit but since i can only logon as a guest i could not do anything this is a used laptop so i have no way of finding out what that admin password is

Mafamba Team

Oct 25 2006, 11:12 AM

Ouch!

This is why it worries me to put accounts on desktop computers and laptops etc.

This was one of the major turnoffs for me on putting password accounts on, but I decided to anyway, and I usually create another account if a freind or family member wants to use the computer.

I would highly recommend finding out how the hell the friend accidentally went on to Control Panel - User Accounts - Administrator - and accidentally deleted admin account.

And you shuld charge her or him at leats 50% of the charge having to ring up Microsoft or going to a LAptop fixing place.

These places can be expensive, £150.00 a fix sometimes.

If your laptop isn't worth that much, then you should consider purchasing a new laptop with part cost paid from your mates.

Hope that helps,,

A ll the best!!!!!!

MaFaMbA tEaM

Grafitti

Oct 25 2006, 03:41 PM

Oh come on, you don't need to know the password to get on a Windows machine. Can't speak for Vista since i've not gotten around to trying it yet, but for XP, if you have physical access to the machine there are a hundred ways to bypass just about any of the security features for free. The only one i've not been able to find a working freeware utility for is EFS encryption. But that's beside the point.
For one, I don't think you can delete the administrator account, unless you've specified another administrator.
So go to any of these sites:
http://www.loginrecovery.com/
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd060213.zip
http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=80024
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103017
and you'll be able to change passwords for any accounts on the computer, without having to log in to windows.
These are just the simplest ways in...
Definitely though, at least charge him half of what it would have cost from a paid service.

tansqrx

Oct 25 2006, 04:54 PM

It’s amazing how often then subject comes up. I have a tutorial at http://www.ycoderscookbook.com/ on how to reset your Windows password. Go to Tutorials and References and then click “How to Reset a NT Password using Knoppix-STD” at the bottom of the Tutorials page.

One bit of advice is that you can not delete the Windows built-in Administrator account but that doesn’t really matter because you don’t have the password. The above procedure will set the Administrator password to null (just hit enter at the login screen). As for your files I don’t know. It depends on how the account was deleted. If the account was removed by conventional means (through control panel) then there is an option to delete all user files. If your friend clicked yes then you may be in a world of hurt. If for some other reason Windows just done something funky and misplaced the account (seen this a few times) then you are still good with respect to your files. The files will be under C:\Documents and Settings\<name of your account>. One course of action is to remove the hard drive and hook it up to another machine. The second machine will see the hard drive and then simply copy your files off. I would most likely do this as the first step as you never really know what happened until you get access and who knows what Windows will do in the mean time.

If on the other hand your files were deleted you can find several data recovery software packages that may get your files back. The very important thing to remember here is do not add any other files to the system until the recovery is complete. Once the deleted data is overwritten then you really are out of luck.

Let me know if this helps or you need more assistance.

mohsen2p

Oct 25 2006, 07:57 PM

hi
download a application from
http://users.cjb.net/mojtaba/ntfs4dos.zip

and create boot floppy diskett and boot system from floppy
after boot:
run NTFS4DOS to access to ntfs drives
then go to windows installed drive and

%Windir%\System32\Config\

for Example if windows is installed on drive c: go to : c:\windows\system32\config
and copy a file named sam.* in to floppy and try to crack this files with L0phtCrack is available in internet
in other computer

0ok
sorry if my english s a poor

xboxrulz

Oct 25 2006, 09:49 PM

or the easy man's out would be just to reformat your machine, if u were considering to get a new one.

xboxrulz

nightfox

Oct 26 2006, 03:49 AM

QUOTE(Mafamba Team @ Oct 25 2006, 07:12 AM)

This was one of the major turnoffs for me on putting password accounts on, but I decided to anyway, and I usually create another account if a freind or family member wants to use the computer.

Yeah, since I run a netware server on my home network, I'd just create an account for them to use. I think that is much safer and they couldn't cause so much damage. BUT, what I would suggest if you allow people to use your computer is to purchase Deep Freeze from Faronics (http://www.faronics.com) and install it on your computer. When you're the only one using it, you can turn off Deep Freeze so you can install software & save files and settings to your drive. When you let someone else use your computer, turn it on and they can do ANYTHING to it (including some how delete the admin account). Once they're done, all you need to do is reboot and poof! everything is back to normal! Then you can turn off Deep Freeze.

Plus, a single license is only like 30 bucks. I love Deep Freeze to death. It's a great program EVERYONE should have! Or if you run a file server like Windows Server (I've read that some people do use it in their homes. I use it and Novell), you can just setup your computer the way you like, turn on deep freeze and save to the server and you're good!

Deep freeze will also protect you from Viruses and Spyware as well. If you get a virus, reboot and it's gone! My school uses deep freeze and it's cool. I like to go in sometimes when I have nothing better to do and delete as many registry keys as windows will allow me to the point where Windows doesn't work at all (to the point where it would require a reinstallation of Windows) and reboot.. Poof! Windows is back along with the registry. I highly recommend Deep Freeze! Even if you keep it off, it's always there.

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loca_mami13

Oct 26 2006, 08:27 AM

Thank you guys for trying ot help but the laptop does not have any disk drives att all no floppy or cd, IT also does not have any connection to the internet so i can not download a file, and the usb ports need to have drivers installed which i can not do on a guest account is there any other ways with out needing soft wear, i do not need ro know the old password, it woul be great if i could atleast creat a new account with admin privlegeges.

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iGuest

May 5 2008, 11:09 AM

Replying to mohsen2pJust download the Hirens 9.4 cd and boot up with it and use password tools ACTIVE PASS Changer, it works for vista aswell.

iGuest

Jan 14 2008, 01:02 PM

Quote:
Go to command prompt,
Type in it see:>net localgroup administrators "The name of the user you want to add" "The password you want that account to have" /add

And it will create an account

I have also tryed this but it saysa access denied how to I do this

Please email me at rickstre090 at hotmail.Co.Uk because I may not come here again

iGuest

Jan 3 2008, 02:44 AM

how abt this
Help: XP Pro Admin Account Deleted! Only Guest Access

Ok your computer has got the least of privileges, but to you it means a lot. How about giving this a shot,

Start your computer and hold on to F8
Get into safe mode
Command prompt
Type "control userpasswords2" without the asterix
You can see the admin accounts on your computer, with a guest etc.

You will have options there, to reset your password, or even create a new acct.
Unless your friend went into control panel, user accounts and then deleted it...I don't know

DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING, UNLESS NECESSARY

Good Luck

-Help

levimage

Dec 5 2007, 02:21 AM

QUOTE(loca_mami13 @ Oct 26 2006, 01:27 AM)

Hey loca_mami31, everyone here is offering great advice. I've looked into some.

I have ran into some computer which are that screwed up before. Most of them I had to do reinstalls some clients payed a good amout of $$$ for me to backup their data to DVD's first. I guess it depends on your situation - do you really need your existing data or would it be okay to start from scratch? I usually have to reset password if I forget to ask or if Windows locked the computer due to exceeding the maximum number of incorrect guests, or they simply don't know of remember. For this, I personally use the http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ which has help me out numerous times. I am not sure what is the latest version, but in order to use it you have to read the instructions or the FAQ on the website. You can download the the file, unzip, and burn the .ISO file to a black CDR or create a bootable usb.

Then, unlock/reset the administartor account, then set the password to blank. Save to the registry when you exit. Reboot. Hopefully this gets you in.

If it doesn't you may have to turn on your computer and shutdown your computer without logging on. You have to do this twice so windows will properly shutdown and close all system/registry files. I helps if you leave your computer off for 30 seconds and when you come to the logon screen wait like 2 minutes or till the hard drive activity slows down.

In the program if somehow you still can't salvage the administrator account - it happened to one client of mine on XP Home (i even tried using system policies, etc. with no success) - you may have to upgrade you other account to administrative priviages. This will work most of the time too

Good luck on your fixing it. If you this works for you, then give yourself a pat on the back cause you deserve a beer.

Levimage

Ronel

Dec 4 2007, 11:43 AM

Didn't he said that he doesn't have an internet conection whatsoever?

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