Re: Accessing Accounts on Transplanted Harddrives

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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:08:06 -0700, "SBowline" <SBowline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My laptop with XP Home Edition died, so I removed the hard drive and put it
>in a USB enclosure so that I could read my files from my desktop (with XP
>Pro). The only problem is that most of the files I need are in my "private"
>user account directory (not encrypted). Even though my desktop unit has the
>same user name and password, I cannot read these files. All other files are
>OK.
>
> Am I screwed? How can I configure my desktop account so that the user
>keys or whatever they're called are the same?
>
>-thanks!

Just take ownership of the folder and set permissions, propagating to child objects.

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
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