I have a laptop SONY VAIO. With two partitions 'C' and 'D'. Operating system
is Windows XP.

We are four family members. My wife named 'Mamoona', me named 'Sajid' my son
named 'Arslan' and my Daughter named 'Nida'.

There were four users by names. All with administrative rights.

On Drive 'D' there were four folders with names which were associated with
My documents of each user.

My wife's and my user was without password.

My son's and daughter's users were with password.

Our computer was too slow due to some problems. I run the following utility.

Start--->All Programes-->Vaio Recovery Tool-->Vaio Recovery Utility.

The purpose was to restore the factory settings. Within the utility I chose
the option to initialise drive 'C' only.

As per sony insturction manual, data on drive 'D' should have remained intact.

When process finished, I found that folders on drive 'D' for my wife and me
named 'Mamoona' and 'Sajid' contained all data. I associated these folders
with new users, i.e.

properties of my documnets --> Move --> D:\sajid and D:\mamoona.

But when I tried to repeat same action with folders on 'D:\Arslan and
D:\'Nida', for my son and daughter named 'Arslan' and 'Nida' I found message
'Access Denied'. When I try to open the said folders on drive 'D' by double
click the folders I get the same message. Bothe folders had very serious data
of personal work of my son and daughter.

Have I loose the data of these folders because their user had password?

Why it happened while sony manual says that if you choose 'C' in utility to
initialise, date on 'D' will remain intact?

Is there any way to retrive data from these two folders?

Please do your best to help me. Data included hard work of my children for
last many years and we don't have any other backup for the same.

I'm too worried and waiting for your reply.

Thanks.


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Sajid

"Abdur Rahim Sajid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>I have a laptop SONY VAIO. With two partitions 'C' and 'D'. Operating
>system
> is Windows XP.
>
> We are four family members. My wife named 'Mamoona', me named 'Sajid' my
> son
> named 'Arslan' and my Daughter named 'Nida'.
>
> There were four users by names. All with administrative rights.
>
> On Drive 'D' there were four folders with names which were associated with
> My documents of each user.
>
> My wife's and my user was without password.
>
> My son's and daughter's users were with password.
>
> Our computer was too slow due to some problems. I run the following
> utility.
>
> Start--->All Programes-->Vaio Recovery Tool-->Vaio Recovery Utility.
>
> The purpose was to restore the factory settings. Within the utility I
> chose
> the option to initialise drive 'C' only.
>
> As per sony insturction manual, data on drive 'D' should have remained
> intact.
>
> When process finished, I found that folders on drive 'D' for my wife and
> me
> named 'Mamoona' and 'Sajid' contained all data. I associated these folders
> with new users, i.e.
>
> properties of my documnets --> Move --> D:\sajid and D:\mamoona.
>
> But when I tried to repeat same action with folders on 'D:\Arslan and
> D:\'Nida', for my son and daughter named 'Arslan' and 'Nida' I found
> message
> 'Access Denied'. When I try to open the said folders on drive 'D' by
> double
> click the folders I get the same message. Bothe folders had very serious
> data
> of personal work of my son and daughter.
>
> Have I loose the data of these folders because their user had password?
>
> Why it happened while sony manual says that if you choose 'C' in utility
> to
> initialise, date on 'D' will remain intact?
>
> Is there any way to retrive data from these two folders?
>
> Please do your best to help me. Data included hard work of my children for
> last many years and we don't have any other backup for the same.
>
> I'm too worried and waiting for your reply.

No the data is not lost, it's an issue of ownership. From Start | Help and
Support search on ownership for info or see the below link. You haven't
said if this is XP Pro or Home. For Pro disable simple file sharing (if you
haven't otherwise) to see the security tab. Search in Help and Support for
Simple File sharing. For XP Home you'll need to start in Safe Mode and
login to the built in Administrator account to see the security tab.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]