|
Posted by Malke on December 2, 2005, 9:30 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Flibberty Gibbitt wrote:
> My charming Dell crashed, but I was able to save the hard drive, which
> now sits in a USB-connected enclosure, so I can access the files from
> another
> computer. But...
>
> I cannot get access to the files/folders under my (old) log-in name,
> presumably because it was originally protected with a password as part
> of my
> Windows XP login. (I'm talking about files in "Documents & Settings"
> under my specific user name.)
>
> Is there a way to get around this, or to provide the password to get
> into
> this section of the harddrive? There are a bunch of profile-type data
> files
> that are very much worth salvaging. And Dell has not been much help
> with all this, needless to say.
First try taking ownership of the files.
Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
If that doesn't work, you can always retrieve the files with Knoppix, a
Linux distro that runs from CD. Knoppix will ignore XP permissions and
you can get the files and then just copy them to your new hard drive.
Let me know if you need more help on that.
Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| 
XML site map