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`Elf
Hi,
Here's a problem I've been unsuccessfully trying to solve for Arlene.
Because her kids use her PC she password protected her account on her XP
system before she went on vacation. When she got back the PC won't boot.
Kids say, "Yeah, it just stopped working." So I wind up with it, etc.
No video is the problem. CPU or mobo dead. Cause was fan came off the cpu
due to bracket failure. (The brackets that the fan clips to.)
Put the hard drive in a new mobo/cpu, from an ECS P4 into an ASUS AMD Pro +,
and XP won't boot. Not to safe, normal, etc. Comes back to same screen
each time: "If this is the first time you've seen this screen reboot,
otherwise see your vendor, etc."
This is all about rescuing her business files that haven't been backed up
since last February. So I set the drive up as a slave in the AMD system,
and bingo, there it is in all its ntfs glory. Everything is there, and
everything can be copied off onto the new hard drive except her "my docs"
folder, which is the only one that really matters. Every way I can think of
to get into it yields the "access denied" window.
I've tried everything I know how to do. I'm reluctant to re-install or run
the repair utility because I don't know what would happen to the contents of
the my docs folder and really don't want to loose those files if possible.
Can anybody recommend something else I could try?
Thanks,
Elf
Here's a problem I've been unsuccessfully trying to solve for Arlene.
Because her kids use her PC she password protected her account on her XP
system before she went on vacation. When she got back the PC won't boot.
Kids say, "Yeah, it just stopped working." So I wind up with it, etc.
No video is the problem. CPU or mobo dead. Cause was fan came off the cpu
due to bracket failure. (The brackets that the fan clips to.)
Put the hard drive in a new mobo/cpu, from an ECS P4 into an ASUS AMD Pro +,
and XP won't boot. Not to safe, normal, etc. Comes back to same screen
each time: "If this is the first time you've seen this screen reboot,
otherwise see your vendor, etc."
This is all about rescuing her business files that haven't been backed up
since last February. So I set the drive up as a slave in the AMD system,
and bingo, there it is in all its ntfs glory. Everything is there, and
everything can be copied off onto the new hard drive except her "my docs"
folder, which is the only one that really matters. Every way I can think of
to get into it yields the "access denied" window.
I've tried everything I know how to do. I'm reluctant to re-install or run
the repair utility because I don't know what would happen to the contents of
the my docs folder and really don't want to loose those files if possible.
Can anybody recommend something else I could try?
Thanks,
Elf