Re: Password Protected?

From: Kenny (hotmail_at_coldmail.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:07:48 +0300

There is a solution that may save you if noone else gives you a better
answer (most will say that it is impossible to get your data back).
Download a version of LINUX that boots and runs from a cdrom without
touching
your hard disks at all, like KNOPPIX
(http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html)

You download the ISO image of this Linux and then you burn it into a
boot CD
then when you boot in linux you can read those protected partitions because
they can read NTFS volumes even if they are protected.
There is no configuration needed.
I just tested Knoppix and this works well!

Another solution would be to connect the hard drive to a computer already
running linux and reading the info from there.
Another solution would to install linux (like MANDRAKE) on a partition of
another HD and connect th HD with the data.
You can do this as a DUAL BOOT.

I would advise you get the assistance of a friend that knows some things
about linux
and has a machine running linux, if you do not know anything about linux.
All this is if the data is important enough to get into the trouble.
But this method has seved me in the past.

Kenny

"Highspeed" <olssonl73@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23ivnHuTJEHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I built a new computer and I installed Windows XP Home on the new HDD.
Now
> I am trying to move my data from one HDD to another. However when I try
to
> access the old data, it tells me that it cannot. I did have passwords on
> the two user accounts on the old HDD. I have tried putting the drive into
> another computer but no luck, I have also tried to reassemble the old
> computer but still no luck. Has anyone had this problem and if so how did
> you work around it to get the old data back?
>
> Thanks and sorry for cross posting, but the more opinions the better.
>
>

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