Re: Jupiter, Please Help Me!!!

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox@mvps.org)
Date: 04/03/03 

From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:30:05 -0500

See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421 

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"Jim Butler" <butler@butlerdidit.com> wrote in message
news:038701c2f97b$74c84210$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Jupiter, I have been reading a lot of your past posts
> and you seem extremely knowledgable with WinXP.
>
> My system crashed and instead of figuring out what was
> wrong, I just built a new system and loaded my old OS, Win
> 2K Pro. I took out my old hard drive (Win XP Home OS) and
> hooked it up to my new computer through a USB 2.0 external
> enclosure. I am now trying to access my old files on the
> hard drive.
>
> There were three users on the old computer. All files are
> accessible from the two users that did not have full
> administrative privileges. However, I cannot access my
> files. The system won't ask me for a log-in name or
> password to access it. Is there any way to access my files?
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
> Jim

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