Re: Accessing old App data following reinstall of OS

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 09/21/02


From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:42:38 -0700

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Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Steve" <stephen@manx.net> wrote in message
news:4ecb01c26177$965ec170$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> Hi,
>
> I have a friend who has reinstalled windows XP following
> bad clusters found on their HD.
>
> I need to access and transfer over the OLD application
> data (e-mail) and various docs in the My Docs folder,
> however the user profile folder (under docs & settings) is
> locked (Access Denied).
>
> I have tried using the recovery console to log in to the
> OLD version of windows to copy the data over but it seems
> the old SAM database has become corrupt as its not
> accepting the old admin password, so i'm stuck.
>
> Does anyone know of any util / way of accessing the old
> profile's folder without knowing the admin pass to the old
> version of windows xp?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve
> :-)


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