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[Guest]

Hi,

My Windows xp crashed. I tried recovering it but still continues to give me
errors. Windows will not boot.

So what I did was replaced my primary drive with another harddisk. and
installed a new windows on that. This way my old drive along with the crashed
windows is my drive d:. I would like to recover the user files in the drive
d: and burn the important files into a disk, but windows is denying my access
to the user folders. I know that some of the users from that crashed windows
has admin passwords. I know all the passowrds... How can I access the
folders???

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| Hi,
|
| My Windows xp crashed. I tried recovering it but still continues to give me
| errors. Windows will not boot.
|
| So what I did was replaced my primary drive with another harddisk. and
| installed a new windows on that. This way my old drive along with the crashed
| windows is my drive d:. I would like to recover the user files in the drive
| d: and burn the important files into a disk, but windows is denying my access
| to the user folders. I know that some of the users from that crashed windows
| has admin passwords. I know all the passowrds... How can I access the
| folders???

 

[BrianC]

Take ownership of the items and then copy them. You need to use advanced
file sharing.

 

[Guest]

Thank you! Hopefully this will work.