Recovering Data from Passworded Account

[Jay]

Greetings! I recently needed to replace my hard drive due to a crash. I
have the old drive attached to my machine as a USB storage device. On that
drive, in the Documents and Settings Folder I can see the folder with my name
on it, from my Windows user account. The account was passworded. I need to
recover my favorites. I can see my Favorites folder, but when I try to open
it, copy/paste it, or Explore it, I get an Access Denied message. Is there
any way to get in there and get my favorites?

Thanks,

 

[Malke]

Greetings! I recently needed to replace my hard drive due to a crash. I
have the old drive attached to my machine as a USB storage device. On
that drive, in the Documents and Settings Folder I can see the folder with
my name
on it, from my Windows user account. The account was passworded. I need
to
recover my favorites. I can see my Favorites folder, but when I try to
open
it, copy/paste it, or Explore it, I get an Access Denied message. Is
there any way to get in there and get my favorites?

Take ownership of the folder.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

Malke

 

[Jay]

Excellent! Thank you so much! All the articles you provided helped.

Greetings! I recently needed to replace my hard drive due to a crash. I
have the old drive attached to my machine as a USB storage device. On
that drive, in the Documents and Settings Folder I can see the folder with
my name
on it, from my Windows user account. The account was passworded. I need
to
recover my favorites. I can see my Favorites folder, but when I try to
open
it, copy/paste it, or Explore it, I get an Access Denied message. Is
there any way to get in there and get my favorites?

Take ownership of the folder.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

Malke