Deleted *all* user accounts in win2k pro

HP Pavilion 8750c
Windows 2000 Professional


So this is fairly hilarious:

My mother has an archaic HP she is donating to someone and in preparation she took all private info off the computer. After removing all sensitive information, she decided to remove the user accounts and somehow removed ALL of them. This means no administrator, no default, no user, no nothing. Every account deleted.

Since coming over to help her we've tried safemode, debug mode, HP Recovery, etc etc etc. Windows boots to the login screen and we've tried anything imaginable. Does anyone know of solutions short of reinstalling the OS?

 

I don't think you can delete the built-in 'Administrator' (not 'Admin') account.

Try to login to 'Administrator' - if you know the password, of course...

Have you tried to login to Last Known Good Configuration?

 

We've tried Admin and last known configuration and nothing.

 

It's not 'Admin' - the built in admin name is 'Administrator'.

 

My apologies, I have a habit of abbreviation. We tried "administrator" and many other login names to no avail. I think we'll just reinstall the OS and scrap this.

 

Did you also try 'Administrator' (with an capital 'A')?