Re: Urgent!! How to access an old protected folder in XP. Please help!
- From: "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:18:21 -0600
Since you're using XP, you might want to ask in an XP newsgroup instead of
the Media Center newsgroup. Microsoft.public.windowsxp.general might be a
good place to start...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Jazztronik" <Jazztronik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B02932BC-C5B0-4D49-91F3-C3CE11A7A53D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, I've got a serious problem. Not long time ago my old hard disk
> started
> to fail and I had to install a new one and reinstall XP in it, creating
> new
> user accounts.
>
> The problem resides in a folder inside the Documents and Settings folder
> of
> the old HD. I still can access the old HD, but it use to fail in few
> minutes
> and get stuck, and this happens everytime I connect the old HD to the bus.
>
> So, I had an old advanced user account protected with password and
> containing inside its respective folder My Documents very important data
> of
> one of my projects. This account disappeared along with the other older
> accounts of XP installed in the older HD. Now I can't access this folder
> just
> as if it still was bound to a user account with password protection. I
> can't
> even access it from my administrator account, nor from a new account with
> exactly the same name and password than the old one. I can't log into this
> folder whatsoever.
>
> The question is: what could I do to access these data? Please this is
> really
> urgent, as I have to use those files as soon as possible, and to top it
> all I
> don't find my backup CD, maybe it's lost. :-/
>
> Please help! :-(
>
.
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