What do you do when no one has sysadmin rights?



We have an installation of SQL Server 2005 that allows windows
authentication only. None of our windows users have been explicitly
granted sysadmin rights, but my understanding was that if you are a
member of the windows administrator group you will automatically have
sysadmin rights to sql server. This does not appear to be the case.
Is there a way to get our sysadmin rights back or will we have to do a
re-installation?

Thanks!

Michelle

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