Re: Password protected old hard drive user info

"Betsy" <Betsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi.. I have gotten a new SATA Computer and I have out my old hard drive
on
the IDE cable. I need to access my backed up files in c:\documents and
settings\username but I never removed the old password I had to use to
login.

Now I can't boot from the IDE drive as my old registry is gone (some huge
I/O error) and I need to get the files out. I have the password, I just
can't seem to enter it anywhere to get the access i need.

Can anyone help?

I'm assuming and hoping that by "password" you're referring only to your old
account password. With one exception, that password is not an issue and
it's easy to get past the "normal" case. The exception generally doesn't
come as good news.

Normally, you'll just be getting an "access denied" message when you try to
get to those folders. All you need to do is to take ownership of the
folders, and you will have complete access to the folders and their
contents. Note that the procedure for doing this varies depending on the
version of XP you are using; in XP Home you can only do this from Safe Mode,
while in XP Pro you must turn off Simple File Sharing first (in Explorer, go
to Tools, folder options, View, and un-check the last item, "use simple file
sharing").

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

The process can take a few minutes depending on the number of files.


If, however, you were using XP Pro before *and* invoked encryption on any of
those folders, and now cannot boot to your old account and did not export
the account credentials, consider those files gone. The only ways to
decrypt them are either by logging on to that account (which means you must
run that system with that drive) and copying the files to an unencrypted
folder or removing the encryption, or by importing the account credentials
to a new account.



HTH
-pk


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