accidently disabled administrator can't log on

[lifefounder]

I have XP pro and loaded it on a new hardrive. Trying to avoid the opening welcome page requiring you to sign on as Administrator or set up new user, I disabled the user "Administrator" and now the opening log-on screen has no user for me to select. I cannot log-on to the computer at all. Is there something I can do to fix this and avoid reloading XP somehow?

[ChunkDog]

Well, unless you created another user account with admin privledges you s*** outa luck. But after you reformat and install windows again you might want to check out this guide http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dTyp...dId=324&dPage=3, I only linked to the page that tells you how to auto logon in windows xp pro, but you might want to read the whole thing.

[CoffeeFiend]

Hmm, there might be other things you can do. There is a linux floppy that can change lost passwords. It would probably let you re-enable the account too. There might be more ways around this too... (SAM editing...)

[ChunkDog]

Hmm, there might be other things you can do. There is a linux floppy that can change lost passwords. It would probably let you re-enable the account too. There might be more ways around this too... (SAM editing...)

Your Right, I forgot about that, and I use it all the time . Heres the link so you can download it, burn it to cd, and enable the account.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/