Laptop died Urgent help needed

[Guest]

Team,
I have posted my question yesterday and the responses were helpfull,
however it has not taken me to resolution. I am reposting with the hope that
some one can help me.

I spilled coke on my laptop and it died. It ran Windows XP Pro (SP2)
The Hard Drive is good. I have been able to remove the HD and connect
it via USB to another PC (Windows Home Edition - SP2). Howerver there is a
folder under my userid (admin) that I had protected and hidden that it will
not allow me to see and access.

With the help of some previouse posts, I booted my PC (Windows Home
Edition) in safe mode, and attempted to take ownership of the folder in which
the hidden/protected folder is located. However I am still unsuccessfull. The
folder is still invisible.

Any help will be appreciated. I am desperate.

 

[Malke]

Team,
I have posted my question yesterday and the responses were
helpfull,
however it has not taken me to resolution. I am reposting with the
hope that some one can help me.

I spilled coke on my laptop and it died. It ran Windows XP Pro
(SP2) The Hard Drive is good. I have been able to remove the HD
and connect
it via USB to another PC (Windows Home Edition - SP2). Howerver there
is a folder under my userid (admin) that I had protected and hidden
that it will not allow me to see and access.

With the help of some previouse posts, I booted my PC (Windows
Home
Edition) in safe mode, and attempted to take ownership of the folder
in which the hidden/protected folder is located. However I am still
unsuccessfull. The folder is still invisible.

Any help will be appreciated. I am desperate.

Boot with Knoppix, a Linux distro that runs from CD. If you didn't use
encryption (EFS), Knoppix will see the Windows files and not honor any
permissions set on them. Here is information about using Knoppix:

You will need a computer with two cd drives, one of which is a cd/dvd-rw
OR a usb thumb drive with enough capacity to hold your data OR an
external hard drive (formatted FAT32 only). To get Knoppix, you need a
computer with a fast Internet connection and third-party burning
software. Download the Knoppix .iso from www.knoppix.net and create
your bootable cd. Then boot with it and it will be able to see the
Windows files. If you are using the usb thumb drive or external hard
drive, right-click on its icon (on the Desktop) to get its properties
and uncheck the box that says "Read Only". Then click on it to open it.
Note that the default mouse action in the window manager used by
Knoppix (KDE) is a single click to open instead of the traditional MS
Windows' double-click. Otherwise, use the K3b burning program to burn
the files to cd/dvd-r's.

Malke

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

fishguy wrote:

Boot with Knoppix, a Linux distro that runs from CD. If you didn't use
encryption (EFS), Knoppix will see the Windows files and not honor any
permissions set on them. Here is information about using Knoppix:

Another approach is to build a Bart CDR (a "thin" XP on a bootable
CDR) and boot that. Again, this assumes you didn't use EFS, which is
after all designed to prevent access unless you have your ducks in a
row, and *that* is a whole nother topic.

Google( Bart PE )

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[Guest]

Hi,

Try connect it to an XP Pro SP2 machine and than act as follows:

XP-Pro

If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to
administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder
Options, go to the View tab and be sure "Use Simple File Sharing" is not
selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok.

If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user,
right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click
Advanced, go to the Owner tab, select the user you wish to have access, at
the bottom of the box, you should see a check box for "Replace owner on
ubcontainers and objects,"
place a check in the box and click apply and ok.

The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the
folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again,
right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be sure
the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the user
name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary
permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply
and ok.

That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even
in a limited account.

Hope it helps.

 

[Guest]

Team,
I have posted my question yesterday and the responses were helpfull,
however it has not taken me to resolution. I am reposting with the hope that
some one can help me.

I spilled coke on my laptop and it died. It ran Windows XP Pro (SP2)
The Hard Drive is good. I have been able to remove the HD and connect
it via USB to another PC (Windows Home Edition - SP2). Howerver there is a
folder under my userid (admin) that I had protected and hidden that it will
not allow me to see and access.

With the help of some previouse posts, I booted my PC (Windows Home
Edition) in safe mode, and attempted to take ownership of the folder in which
the hidden/protected folder is located. However I am still unsuccessfull. The
folder is still invisible.

Any help will be appreciated. I am desperate.

This is a bit far-fetched and risky, but might work. (I dunno, never tried)
*Make a copy of the C:\Boot.ini file
*Open C:\Boot.ini with Notepad
*Add the line [letter of usbdrive]\WINDOWS="Win XP USB" /fastdetect
*Restart the computer. It should come up with a Select your boot device
message.
*Press F8, choose safe mode, then choose "Win XP USB"
*It should boot from the USB drive. Select Administrator and try copying
your files.
*Restart. This time choose "Windows XP" [or whatever].
*Restore the backup you made up C:\Boot.ini

Hope it helps

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 04:45:02 -0700, Evils Dark

This is a bit far-fetched and risky, but might work. (I dunno, never tried)
*Make a copy of the C:\Boot.ini file
*Open C:\Boot.ini with Notepad
*Add the line [letter of usbdrive]\WINDOWS="Win XP USB" /fastdetect
*Restart the computer. It should come up with a Select your boot device
message.
*Press F8, choose safe mode, then choose "Win XP USB"
*It should boot from the USB drive.

XP booting off a USB stick (or HD) has been something of a holy grail
in mOS circles. It's generally not possible (outside of Server 2003
SP1 AFAIK) because midway through the OS boot process, the USB is
reset, and that chops the OS loading process clean through the gut.

One workaround was to create a RAM disk, throw the OS from USB stick
into the RAM disk, and then boot the OS from there so that it no
longer matters if access to USB is blown away and reset. As you can
guess, this requires much RAM and plenty of moving sware parts.

Bart PE CDR is a more realistic scenario here, I expect

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[Guest]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 04:45:02 -0700, Evils Dark

This is a bit far-fetched and risky, but might work. (I dunno, never tried)
*Make a copy of the C:\Boot.ini file
*Open C:\Boot.ini with Notepad
*Add the line [letter of usbdrive]\WINDOWS="Win XP USB" /fastdetect
*Restart the computer. It should come up with a Select your boot device
message.
*Press F8, choose safe mode, then choose "Win XP USB"
*It should boot from the USB drive.

XP booting off a USB stick (or HD) has been something of a holy grail
in mOS circles. It's generally not possible (outside of Server 2003
SP1 AFAIK) because midway through the OS boot process, the USB is
reset, and that chops the OS loading process clean through the gut.

One workaround was to create a RAM disk, throw the OS from USB stick
into the RAM disk, and then boot the OS from there so that it no
longer matters if access to USB is blown away and reset. As you can
guess, this requires much RAM and plenty of moving sware parts.

Bart PE CDR is a more realistic scenario here, I expect

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Tech Support: The guys who follow the
'Parade of New Products' with a shovel.

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I had no idea it would work or not, never tried it. Just a suggestion.
No harm done