Doing the impossible.

From: Ami (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:23:57 -0800

You know how Microsoft says you can't disable or delete
all administrator profiles? They lie.
My boyfriend's uncle set himself as the administrator and
disabled the old administrator default. When he gave the
computer to my boyfriend and my boyfriend changed the
users to his own accounts, he looked away from the
computer before giving one of his accounts administrator
status and after deleting his uncle's old account (the
last remaining active administrator). Now, there are no
accounts with administrator status and we cannot re-
install Windows XP and boot from the CD because it is not
recognizing it. It reads it just fine in windows and
simply says we cannot access it. So...now what?

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