Accounts disappeared after re-installing Lion

Hello,
After re-installing Lion, my login accounts disappeared.
I can only see the Guest account.
However, when I boot with Windows, I can see the directories of my accounts.
Currently, I can't login Mac OS.
Any advise is welcomed.

Did you eerase and re-install, then migrate?
s2kip wrote:
However, when I boot with Windows, I can see the directories of my accounts.
Where in the directory structure are they?
Have you looked in /Users to see if a new account was created there?

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