Re: unlock hard drive from damaged windows system?
- From: "Vanguard" <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:03:27 -0500
"urbnjckct" <urbnjckct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:61C3C2CC-AE43-4A6E-BFD7-A80EF689608C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
my friend has a windows (98 I believe) desktop that has begun to die. he
cannot boot from the hard drive. so we pulled the drive and attached it to my
XP Pro machine with a usb enclosure so I can recover as much data as
possible. my machine sees the drive, and I can browse the directories, but
when I try to open C:\docs & setttings\user_name (which is his name) I get a
error: "XXXXXX is not accessible. Access is denied". He's here, and I have
his password. so how do I unlock this folder? I'd be willing to purchase a
piece of shareware, or is there a way in windows to do this? all the other
folders are ok and I can copy data from them.
Log on under an admin-level account and take possession of the folders (and their files). I have to wonder if the friend's host uses Windows 98 since 9x-based versions of Windows don't have profiles because they don't have account security. Logging on only decided which password cache file that user could access, but you could always hit Esc to bypass the login and omit access to the password cache file. Windows NT 4 puts its user profiles under "C:\WinNT\profiles\<username>" and Windows 2000/XP put them under "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>".
The only way you would not be permitted access is if the old drive was using NTFS and that means it is NOT some 9x-based version of Windows. It is Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and the partition uses NTFS so permissions can be defined and enforced. The SID (security identifier) assigned for those permissions on those folders and files is not defined in your instance of Windows and why you don't get access to them. However, as an administrator, you can take ownership of those files to get access to them. Once you are the owner, you can check the permissions allow you access to the files.
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