Help Needed - Thanks in Advance

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My son's computer crashed - seems to be a motherboard issue and not the
hard drive - it just won't boot and gives a message about being unable
to mount the HD.

I've removed the HD and put it into an external USB box and attached it
to my computer. I can read the drive just fine. I've done a virus
check and nothing comes up.

My problem is that he had a username/password during is windows boot.
If I try to open his folder I get the Can't Do That message because of
the protection. He has homework and stuff on his disk.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that would allow me to open his
folder and copy his files to his new hard disk - yes I ended up
purchasing a new computer - yuck!

Thanks in advance.

Alan
 
My problem is that he had a username/password during is windows boot.
If I try to open his folder I get the Can't Do That message because of
the protection. He has homework and stuff on his disk.
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I don't know of any freeware product that can do what you ask---but
that doesn't mean that such a freeware product does not exist---it only
means that I haven't found it yet.

If this is a time-sensitive-emergency, go to Google and search for the
phrase "password recovery." Download demos of payware and see if one of
them will crack the password for you---you will only need one of the
demos to crack the password only one time so you can get into the
drive, right?

I don't mean to be sarcastic, but can't your son just tell you the
password?

Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful. Maybe someone else here in the
NG actually knows the URL of freeware that will crack that password...
 
My son's computer crashed - seems to be a motherboard issue and not the
hard drive - it just won't boot and gives a message about being unable
to mount the HD.

I've removed the HD and put it into an external USB box and attached it
to my computer. I can read the drive just fine. I've done a virus
check and nothing comes up.

My problem is that he had a username/password during is windows boot.
If I try to open his folder I get the Can't Do That message because of
the protection. He has homework and stuff on his disk.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that would allow me to open his
folder and copy his files to his new hard disk - yes I ended up
purchasing a new computer - yuck!

Thanks in advance.

Alan
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If you have bought a new computer it will probably support a USB boot -
look in your BIOS for the boot order and change it to be USB first device,
then boot to his windows Hard Drive and enter the password there.

If worst comes to worst, change the drive in your machine for his and boot
it there.
 
My son's computer crashed - seems to be a motherboard issue and not the
hard drive - it just won't boot and gives a message about being unable
to mount the HD.

I've removed the HD and put it into an external USB box and attached it
to my computer. I can read the drive just fine. I've done a virus
check and nothing comes up.

My problem is that he had a username/password during is windows boot.
If I try to open his folder I get the Can't Do That message because of
the protection. He has homework and stuff on his disk.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that would allow me to open his
folder and copy his files to his new hard disk - yes I ended up
purchasing a new computer - yuck!
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I'm not sure if I understand the question, but if you're talking about
Windows logon and secure USER folders on NT/XP, I think your son would
have to set up the same username on the new computer, PROBABLY set the
password to the most recent one he had on the old box, then try to
acess his folder or folders on the old drive attached to the NEW box.
It's worth a try. Logon password could be changed to something else
after the files are recovered.
 
My son's computer crashed - seems to be a motherboard issue and not the
hard drive - it just won't boot and gives a message about being unable
to mount the HD.

I've removed the HD and put it into an external USB box and attached it
to my computer. I can read the drive just fine. I've done a virus
check and nothing comes up.

My problem is that he had a username/password during is windows boot.
If I try to open his folder I get the Can't Do That message because of
the protection. He has homework and stuff on his disk.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that would allow me to open his
folder and copy his files to his new hard disk - yes I ended up
purchasing a new computer - yuck!

Thanks in advance.

Alan
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Just ask him what the username/password was.
 
Thanks to all. :The problem isn't that we don't know the password,
just that when the drive is external - in a USB enclosure - it isn't
the boot drive so there is no place to enter the logon and password.

Thanks for the idea of looking at the bios and seeing if it will boot
from the USB drive. That would solve the problem.

Thanks to all.

Alan
 
 
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