Re: Help - my private profile is on a secondary drive

welshcomp wrote:
The motherboard in my computer died and I purchased a new computer. I installed the old hard drive as a secondard drive in the new computer only to find that I cannot access any of my information. My profile was set to private and I cannot access it. I tried creating the same account on the new computer with the same password, but I still cannot get in.

Does anyone know how to access any private files on a secondary drive? All my files, documents and email are stored here. Is there a log file that I can change or a security setting??? Please help.
Thanks,
D.Welsh

Assuming that you didn't actually encrypt the data, all you need to do is take ownership.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? - http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm


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