Ok.. Heres what happened. For some reason an
installation of Windows XP Pro stopped booting. It locks
up durring boot, i havent been able to fix it. My
question is how can i get access to a users files on the
hard drive. Eg. The admin user made the files in the
documents and setting folder private.. now that i have
the HD in another computer i need to recover some files
from the user folder in documents and settings, how do i
do that? Every time i try to accedd that folder it says
that access is denied. Thanks for your help.
-Jason

Jason wrote:

> Ok.. Heres what happened. For some reason an
> installation of Windows XP Pro stopped booting. It locks
> up durring boot, i havent been able to fix it. My
> question is how can i get access to a users files on the
> hard drive. Eg. The admin user made the files in the
> documents and setting folder private.. now that i have
> the HD in another computer i need to recover some files
> from the user folder in documents and settings, how do i
> do that? Every time i try to accedd that folder it says
> that access is denied. Thanks for your help.

Hi

This one might help you out:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308421


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See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

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

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"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:04de01c3d35e$712ce4e0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ok.. Heres what happened. For some reason an
> installation of Windows XP Pro stopped booting. It locks
> up durring boot, i havent been able to fix it. My
> question is how can i get access to a users files on the
> hard drive. Eg. The admin user made the files in the
> documents and setting folder private.. now that i have
> the HD in another computer i need to recover some files
> from the user folder in documents and settings, how do i
> do that? Every time i try to accedd that folder it says
> that access is denied. Thanks for your help.
> -Jason