XP Home recover files

[Guest]

My brother's XP Home PC's hard drive is heading south pretty quickly and will
no longer boot the PC. If I put the hard drive in a different PC as the
slave, I can recover most of the files, except for his directory which is
password protected. There is a whole raft of photos he'd like to get back,
but I only get "Access is denied" when trying to open his directory. In the
Recovery Console I can get in and see the files, and I suppose if I had
unlimited time I could copy them all to the root, but I'm hoping there's an
easier way. This hard drive will not boot into safe mode either

 

[Malke]

My brother's XP Home PC's hard drive is heading south pretty quickly
and will no longer boot the PC. If I put the hard drive in a different
PC as the slave, I can recover most of the files, except for his
directory which is password protected. There is a whole raft of photos
he'd like to get back, but I only get "Access is denied" when trying
to open his directory. In the Recovery Console I can get in and see
the files, and I suppose if I had unlimited time I could copy them all
to the root, but I'm hoping there's an easier way. This hard drive
will not boot into safe mode either

Try taking ownership of the files while it is slaved to your working XP
install.

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

Malke

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

My brother's XP Home PC's hard drive is heading south pretty quickly and will
no longer boot the PC. If I put the hard drive in a different PC as the
slave, I can recover most of the files, except for his directory which is
password protected.

Google( maintenance OS )
Google( Bart PE )

Don't write to the HD until data's recovered. Windows will ALWAYS
write to the HD automatically, so is unsafe for use in this situation,
though you can make it less of a bloodbath by disabling SR on the HD.

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