Accessing "Documents & Settings" from Hard Drive Backup

[Christian Mohn]

Hello,

I have a computer that has a virus on it and after a while showed me at the
startup "Stop C0000218 The registry cannot load Hive(file)" So I put the
Harddrive in another Computer cleaned up the viruses and tried to make a
backup of the drive. When I came to the Doccuments & Settings Folder it said
"access denied". Is there a way to access it for example that I can define
with wich Username and Password I want to open it like a Network Connection?


Any Help would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Sharon F]

Hello,

I have a computer that has a virus on it and after a while showed me at the
startup "Stop C0000218 The registry cannot load Hive(file)" So I put the
Harddrive in another Computer cleaned up the viruses and tried to make a
backup of the drive. When I came to the Doccuments & Settings Folder it said
"access denied". Is there a way to access it for example that I can define
with wich Username and Password I want to open it like a Network Connection?


Any Help would be appreciated.
Thanks

The "owner" status supercedes "administrator" in permissions. In other
words, even though these are your files, XP regards them as belonging to
the old account. It is protecting them from unauthorized access (access
denied). You can regain access to these files by taking ownership of them:

How To Take Ownership of a File or Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

The above assumes that the files are *not* protected by encryption.

 

[Christian Mohn]

Thanks you helped me alot.
I know the procedure from xp prof and win2000 I never figured you can only
access the security tab in Safe Mode.

Thanks again,
Christian

 

[Sharon F]

Thanks you helped me alot.
I know the procedure from xp prof and win2000 I never figured you can only
access the security tab in Safe Mode.

Thanks again,
Christian

You're most welcome, Christian.