Re: Seek Help on a folder that is password Protected

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Thank you Mr. Vernon your responce was very helpful, the first link told me
just what I needed to do and I have recovered the lost files and all is good
here.
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Al Dzina
IT Manager for
Quality Life Center of Jacksonville


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

You were very clear. :)

You basically have 2 choices here.

1. If you want the drive to be able to boot in another system, you will need to move the drive to the new system and perform a Repair installation. The drive has all of the information for the hardware profile from the old system so it will not boot into a new system unless it recognizes the hardware on that system. The Repair installation will build a new hardware profile for the new system.

2. The best strategy would be to simply install the drive to another system as a slave drive. Take ownership of the files and folders that you wish to save and copy those files and folders over to the Master drive in that system.

This drive is not to be trusted since it was in a system that died from a lightning strike. It is subject to fail at any time.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Al Dzina" <AlDzina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4FBAC867-0666-44AE-91AB-01902AF7B3D9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ok you are very helpful the two of you , but I don't think I mad my self very
clear about that I can not boot from the drive I can only see it if it is a
slave in a different system will all of those links still help or are we in a
different problem. I will review the links to learn more and wait to see if
there is more to come thank you.
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Al Dzina
IT Manager for
Quality Life Center of Jacksonville


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

You simply need to take ownership of those folders and files.
You can also copy all of the previous users programs and settings to the new user profile.
The following articles will guide you.

MVP Rick Rogers has a good explanation of the step by step process.
Taking Ownership:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

Here is the Microsoft reference for taking ownership.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

Here is the Microsoft Reference for transferring programs and settings to a new user profile.

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Al Dzina" <AlDzina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9BB1B245-A5DE-4ED5-9763-8B38711D16CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
One of our workstations a Windows XP home Compaq system took some bad
lightning and killed the motherboard, mem, and CPU the hard drive works and
that is good because it has data on it that I need to get back.
The problem is booting up in any other system it just reboots after post. If
I force the drive to slave I can see the hole drive and all folders. The
folder I need is at” E:\Documents and Settings\Owner” and when I try to enter
the folder I get an access is denied error. I know and the end user that was
using it knows that there is data in their.
I was wondering if there is a way to reset the password or remove the
password, or any other way for me to get this data back I would appreciate
the help. --

Al Dzina
IT Manager for
Quality Life Center of Jacksonville


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