locked personal files

[Guest]

Hey there,

I just made a big mistake and I hope somebody can help me.
Last week I bought new parts for my pc and I had to reinstall my windows
because the drivers wouldn't work.
I put in the windows cd and booted from the cd. And one of the options it
gave me was 'Repair Windows'. I thought to myself 'that's what I want, my old
windows but repaired to work with the new hardware'. So I chose that option.
Next thing that happens is that it asks me for a administrator password. I
know I filled it in the first time I installed windows on this pc but I
couldn't remember which password it was. I tried three different ones and
still not the right one, so windows goes defensive on me and blocks my
account.

That's not what I wanted. So I installed windows from scratch since the
repair thing wouldn't work anyway. But now I try to open up the 'my
documents' folder on the old windows and it says "access denied".

I hope I can turn this thing around because all my personal files, including
my e-mails, are in that folder.

Does anybody know what I can do?

 

[RobinS]

If you'd like some help with this problem, please consider posting this to
a Windows newsgroup. This is a .Net Programming newsgroup.

Robin S.

 

[Guest]

This is a .NET newsgroup but 1 piece of advise it to try to take ownership of
the files first as the administrators always have permission to take
ownership of things and the folder probably has permissions for the
CREATOR/OWNER user.
Take ownership, that should enable you to open it or at least edit
permissions, in which case you can give yourself permission to open it.