Accessing Files under Another Profile

From: JFleming (james_at_flemings5.com)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:51:05 -0800

XP suddenly threw at me a corrupt registry and refused to allow any type of boot, safe, or otherwise. The infamous blue screen flashed for 1/2 a second so I was unable to read the exact details. I took a chance and loaded a separate XP OS on the same partition, with the hope of being able to access the "My Documents" folder on the original OS profiles. I tried reloading XP on the original OS but it won't copy files, I am guessing there's a few bad sectors on the hard disk. Obviously when I try to open the Documents and Settings info under the other profiles it says Access is Denied. I need, badly, to get at the data, burn it on CD and then FDisk and give the system a clean slate.

Does anyone know how I can defeat the security and see the data? My wife's PhD thesis is on there and she hasn't backed it up in a about two weeks, please help, my marriage is on the line here!

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