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Old 10-19-2006, 02:07 PM   #1
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Deleted Admin user and gruop

is there a way to recreate or recover the administrator account and group in a windows 2000 server pc? it is deleted and the current account are limited users only.
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Old 10-19-2006, 02:13 PM   #2
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Not that I know of. You are looking at a reinstall I'm afraid.
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Old 10-19-2006, 05:19 PM   #3
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Old 10-20-2006, 01:05 AM   #4
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Problem is - can you do anything in that article with no admin account?
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If he was the admin I belive he could restore by metods recomended !!!
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Old 10-21-2006, 05:31 PM   #6
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the current account are limited users only.
This tells me there ARE no admin accounts left.
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Old 10-21-2006, 06:34 PM   #7
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who's to say that even if you can restore the admin account/group that you still wont have system problems........
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I was thinking if he can still log on to server even with limited account he should be able to use CMD and if he was originaly admin of that server only thing standing on his path would be administrators password!!!
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but its going to look at the account he is running under as limited and deny him unless he can add the switch to each command for the username and password of an admin account, but its not going to find any admin account since they are all deleted
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The best way should be for admin to restore everything from backup, hopefuly he was backing up everything???
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Old 10-23-2006, 03:04 AM   #11
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How do you do a restore with only a limited account?
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Old 10-23-2006, 01:03 PM   #12
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yes, this is a scenario where all the accounts are limited users even the admin groups are deleted, I belive there is no way unless there is a regitry hack to restore the account ID.
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Limited users can't edit the registry - so that's a dead end.
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