Re: Accessing Files under Another Profile

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 12/27/03


Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:20:56 -0700

Greetings --

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421

Bruce Chambers

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"JFleming" <james@flemings5.com> wrote in message
news:F9682708-B2F0-4FF8-BE22-34D1B79FFB00@microsoft.com...
> 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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