Re: PLEASE EXTRA URGENT PLEASE! THIS IS EXTREMLY IMPORTANT

From: Elija (Elija_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:57:02 -0700

Kerry, I went to the link you provided, but I couldnt find 1 of the things
that the web-site mentions.

Could u add me to ur msn messenger if u are online now, so u can tell me how
to do it by remote.

Thanks a lot for your time.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> "Elija" <Elija@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1A792A6C-D120-49E2-AB74-ACEE5EC4185E@microsoft.com...
> >I am a user of windows XP home edition, and I had windows XP installed on C
> > drive partition and my documents on D drive partition (only 2 partitions).
> > In
> > XP settings, I am the administrator, and I had a user name and password
> > too
> > to my account.
> > Windows XP stopped responding and would never log in again, so I had to
> > format my c: drive, but after I reinstalled XP (also home edition), I
> > couldnt
> > access my documents located on D:\ , and it would give me an error message
> > "access is denied". also it shows the size of the folder as 0bytes,
> > despite
> > that I have more than 30GB of works in it! Please this is extremly urgent,
> > I
> > am a medical student and have all my works and projects in my documents,
> > and
> > cant even imagine losing them! How can i recover my documents and decrypt
> > the
> > folder? Note that I didnt lose the password or username, I know it, but it
> > simply wouldnt let me access it or prompt for any user name or password.
> >
> > please if u have any suggestion to do so email me at babi984@hotmail.com
> > or
> > mob2003@med.cornell.edu
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> You have to take ownership of the files. Even though you may have used the
> same user name and password Windows thinks you are a different user. When
> you create a user Windows creates a Security Identifier called a SID. Even
> though the username and password are the same the SIDs are different.
>
> How to take ownership
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
>
> Explanation of SIDs
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdp_log_zhiu.asp
>
> Kerry
>
>
>

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