Re: Using two hard drives and accessing protected info...
- From: "GreenieLeBrun" <GreenieLeBrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Nov 2005 18:47:18 -0800
Elle wrote:
> This is a bit long winded so bare with me.. please!
> My very old laptop finally died a few weeks ago, but it had a lot of very
> special photos and videos on the hard drive that I didn't want to lose, so a
> friend suggested getting an external hard drive case and using the hard drive
> as a portable storage device, so that I would still be able to access the
> files.
> I did just that and initially all was well. I can access the program files
> and whatnot. But my main user account on the laptop hard drive was password
> protected and is now not accessible on my new computer.
> So far the only help anyone (including the microsoft and windows help pages)
> have been able to give me is to go to folder options, then the view tab, then
> advanced settings and then to disable 'use simple file sharing' then when I
> right click and go to properties on the folder I want to access I should get
> a security tab that I can go into and change the ownership of the files. In
> theory that should work.
> But I don't have a 'use simple file sharing' option. It's just not there.
> And when I right click the folder a security tab doesn't appear so I can't
> change the ownership! This is getting really frustrating now, knowing that
> the files are there but I can't get to them.
> Another friend suggested that I try to boot up using the laptop hard drive,
> in the BIOS command thing, but I tried that twice and it wouldn't work and
> I'm really worried if I persist doing that i'll somehow manage to break this
> new computer.
>
> I realise that is long and probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but any
> help would be appreciated! I've tried three other help forums and no one's
> got back to me yet so i'm assuming they don't know...
>
> Thanks
Have you tried to access the files when logged in as the system
Administrator?
You may be able to remove the password using the following utility
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ I notice that is has the
ability to select which drive you want to reset passwords on.
I hope you did not use the encryption facility in XP, for if you did
and you did not export the various keys and create a recovery agent
then your chances of recovering the data is vanishingly small if not
impossible.
.
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