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Windows 7 machine removed from the domain and cannot login.  Needs to move to workgroup

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The company was sold and the domain controller taken offline.  Now the local computer cannot login.  I have been able to get to the cmd line through some procedures found on the web but cannot get to a good login.  When we do net user we do not see a computer name on the User accounts for \\  line.
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We will be using a recovery tool.  There were no cached domain credentials and did not have the local administrator password.
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