Re: password protected user on slave drive

From: Matt DuBois [MSFT] (mdubois_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:09:42 -0700

The good news is that you're probably going to be able to get your files
back. The slightly less than good news is that the process is a little
involved on XP Home. Check out the following KB article and see if it fixes
you up. You can reply back to this message if you have more questions or
run into trouble, or even just to say that it worked for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 

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"JD" <JD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:4CC1B7A3-811C-4AB6-9BC7-632CD8EC5B49@microsoft.com...
> My hard drive crashed.  The restore CD did not recover it (I can't boot up 
> on
> this drive).  I bought a new hard drive, installed it as Master drive, and
> installed the old hard drive as a Slave drive, hoping to recover my files.
> Was able to recover all files from all User Accounts except mine, the
> Computer Administrator account, which I had password protected in order to
> open.  When I go to my (Computer Administrator) User Account in Documents 
> and
> Settings on this Slave drive via My Computer or Windows Explorer or 
> Microsoft
> Word (Open File), or other programs, I get an "Access is denied" message,
> with no chance to even try to enter my old password (which, by the way, is
> the same password I'm using on my new (Master) hard drive).
>
> Since other User Account data files were OK, I remain hopeful that mine 
> are
> too, if I could just access them.  Any ideas?  (Hate to admit it, but I
> hadn't done a comprehensive hard drive backup for six months, so I'm at 
> least
> a bit desparate.....)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.  I'm using Windows XP Home Edition (with 
> SP2).

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