Re: accessing password protected folders

Fredo D. wrote:
In the past I had an old HD and put a password on my user acount and folders, my computer then crashed and since then I forgot the password to the user account. I now have a new computer and I'm trying to access that account by connecting the old HD to the new computer, but of course when I try to access the folder through the new computer it says Access Denied: I need to access that folder on Drive E:, those files are incredibly important to me.

Please help me !


If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder private is something completely different from encryption), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?

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


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