Transfering user accounts off of a corrupt XP Home installation

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Chris

Hello,

I had to create a new installation of XP home on a new
hard disk. The original load became corrupt and
unavailable after an upgrade to service pack 2. I made the
original corrupt installation of XP home the slave drive
and installed a new copy of XP Home to a new separate
disk. When I boot to the new installation of XP Home, I
want to copy the user accounts off of the corrupt
installation which is now the D:\. How do I bypass the
security so that I can copy all the existing user accounts
off of the now D:\ windows XP Home installation to the new
C:\ windows XP installation.
 
Chris said:
I had to create a new installation of XP home on a new
hard disk. The original load became corrupt and
unavailable after an upgrade to service pack 2. I made the
original corrupt installation of XP home the slave drive
and installed a new copy of XP Home to a new separate
disk. When I boot to the new installation of XP Home, I
want to copy the user accounts off of the corrupt
installation which is now the D:\. How do I bypass the
security so that I can copy all the existing user accounts
off of the now D:\ windows XP Home installation to the new
C:\ windows XP installation.
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I don't think it will work like you think it will.. But you can at least get
your files and favorites/etc...

As long as EFS is not involved:

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How to disable simplified sharing & set permissions
on a shared folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307874
 
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