XP suddenly threw at me a corrupt registry and refused to allow any type of boot, safe, or otherwise. The infamous blue screen flashed for 1/2 a second so I was unable to read the exact details. I took a chance and loaded a separate XP OS on the same partition, with the hope of being able to access the "My Documents" folder on the original OS profiles. I tried reloading XP on the original OS but it won't copy files, I am guessing there's a few bad sectors on the hard disk. Obviously when I try to open the Documents and Settings info under the other profiles it says Access is Denied. I need, badly, to get at the data, burn it on CD and then FDisk and give the system a clean slate.

Does anyone know how I can defeat the security and see the data? My wife's PhD thesis is on there and she hasn't backed it up in a about two weeks, please help, my marriage is on the line here!

I experienced exaclty the same problem. Would be grateful if you could pass on to me any solution suggestions that you receive. Thanks very much. My e-mail address is (E-Mail Removed)

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XP suddenly threw at me a corrupt registry and refused to allow any type of boot, safe, or otherwise. The infamous blue screen flashed for 1/2 a second so I was unable to read the exact details. I took a chance and loaded a separate XP OS on the same partition, with the hope of being able to access the "My Documents" folder on the original OS profiles. I tried reloading XP on the original OS but it won't copy files, I am guessing there's a few bad sectors on the hard disk. Obviously when I try to open the Documents and Settings info under the other profiles it says Access is Denied. I need, badly, to get at the data, burn it on CD and then FDisk and give the system a clean slate.

Does anyone know how I can defeat the security and see the data? My wife's PhD thesis is on there and she hasn't backed it up in a about two weeks, please help, my marriage is on the line here!

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"JFleming" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> XP suddenly threw at me a corrupt registry and refused to allow any
type of boot, safe, or otherwise. The infamous blue screen flashed
for 1/2 a second so I was unable to read the exact details. I took a
chance and loaded a separate XP OS on the same partition, with the
hope of being able to access the "My Documents" folder on the original
OS profiles. I tried reloading XP on the original OS but it won't
copy files, I am guessing there's a few bad sectors on the hard disk.
Obviously when I try to open the Documents and Settings info under the
other profiles it says Access is Denied. I need, badly, to get at the
data, burn it on CD and then FDisk and give the system a clean slate.
>
> Does anyone know how I can defeat the security and see the data? My
wife's PhD thesis is on there and she hasn't backed it up in a about
two weeks, please help, my marriage is on the line here!