You did not state if the login was locally to the machine or a network login. I'm assuming it was a local login since you are referencing a laptop and a desktop. If the computer in question is part of a domain somewhere else (ie. at work), then you can try loging into the machine while connected to that domain under a domain account that has local admistrator priviledges as well. 2000 remembers local and domain accounts seperately so the domain account should still be intact. If no domain was ever present, then you can try this.. 1. log into the computer under another account that has administrator priviledges (you didn't rename the administrator account locally did you?) or 2. remove the hard drive and put it into another 2000 computer to recover your data from the drive, reinstall 2000 on that hard drive, then put the hard drive back into the other 2000 machine to restore your critical data. Please say you didn't use file encription.
