Re: opening "owner" files after hard drive failure

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Yes. Provided of course they were not encrypted and no recovery certificate. Simply "Take Ownership". See Help and Support on the subject.

RCOC wrote:

My hardrive posts a failure warning, and XP Home SP2 crashes soon after booting. Reovery/restore does not work. I plan to install a new hard drive and reinstall the OS.

However, I can recover some data when the faulty drive is slaved in a second PC, but the "owner" files are not "authorized" to be accessed.

Question: Is it possible to open these files while slaved on a second PC, or after I install a new drive and OS?

Thanks! 

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