Re: Laptop Data Recovery

Rene Wisler wrote:
Over the weekend someone spilled a drink on my laptop. I bought an
external
2.5" hard drive case and removed the hard drive from the laptop and
I went to retrieve items in 'my documents' to find out that I set
'my files' to private when setting up Windows user accounts. I
can't boot off of this drive to log in and disable this because
none of my other computers offer booting from a USB device.

Is there a way to disable this feature with out booting off of the
hard drive?

So - what you meant to say is that when you try to access the folders/files
in question, you ghet a message that tells you "Access Denied"...?

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP

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