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Fanor

I had to reinstall win XP professional.
I want to recover files created with another user in the previous windows.

How can i do it??

I have the same user name but i changed the computer name, so i can't read
the older files.

TIA
 
Fanor said:
I had to reinstall win XP professional.
I want to recover files created with another user in the previous windows.
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How did you re-install Win XP professional? did you format your HD
before installing? If so then tough luck!! You can't recover any data
from a formatted HD without using specialist tools to unformat the HD.
How can i do it??
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Generally you can take ownership of files using an administrator account
but if the files are encrypted then you are in a for a shock once again
unless you have kept copies of security certificates. Read all about it
here:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...7f7e-49b9-aa0b-88f55d5c59951033.mspx?mfr=true

hth
 
I had to reinstall win XP professional.
I want to recover files created with another user in the previous windows.

How can i do it??

I have the same user name but i changed the computer name, so i can't read
the older files.
Click to expand...

Were these files encrypted with EFS? Are you getting any errors, and if so
it would help if you posted those.

See if this helps:
How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
 
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