Re: Windows XP file recovery, access denied, the works.

From: Jupiter Jones (jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com)
Date: 02/03/03 

From: "Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:50:58 -0700

Ben;
Don't worry about the name, Take Ownership:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421& 

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"Ben McShane" <bbmcshane@bsu.edu> wrote in message
news:030d01c2cb32$593230a0$d4f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA11...
> Okay, here is the rundown.
>
> My hard-drive crashed. Windows wouldn't boot up from it.
> So I bought a new hard drive and slaved the crashed HD to
> the new one. I can boot from the new drive and retrieve
> all the files from the old drive... EXCEPT my
> passworded "user" files. I get an "access denied" message.
>
> I tried creating an account in XP with the old username
> from the old drive... but I am not entirely sure what the
> old name was. There was only one account, so I never
> logged off.
>
> Is there any way for me to recover these files? Is there
> someway I can find out the name and password? All the
> other files on the corrupted HD are accessible... its
> just the ones in the passworded folder. And I know the
> password, just not the username!

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