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"Newbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Any help will be greatly apprciated. I took my harddrive
> out of the old computer and installed it on the new one.
> I have XP on new computer. When I installed the old HDD
> on the new computer, I was not able to access my
> documents under my account folder. I get the
> message "Access denied". I rememeber making my account a
> private folder and that my be the reason why i am not
> able to access it. Looks like the folder has been
> encrypted. Is there any way to unencrypt of bypass that?