Re: opening "owner" files after hard drive failure

I appreciate your help!
"Bob I" wrote:

> 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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