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- May 8, 2005
Hi
Yesterday, in an effort to fix a problem i had to reinstall a second copy of windows XP pro onto the same drive and on the same partition (all windows files went to c:\Windows2)
The drive itself is partitioned into 3 parts C, D, E with C having programs and my docs on and the others music and vids. I need to access my old user profile and data on the first copy of windows and transfer the data to the D or E drives and then i will be doing a complete format.
My problem is that i cannot access the my old user file, it was password protected and i get a "Denied access" error. Howcan i get access to the account, i am an admin for both and know the passwords.
I can't boot windows (the first install) so cant remove the account password that way.
Cheers for any input
EDIT - re-reading that ^ it may not be very clear, if so say and i will try again.
Yesterday, in an effort to fix a problem i had to reinstall a second copy of windows XP pro onto the same drive and on the same partition (all windows files went to c:\Windows2)
The drive itself is partitioned into 3 parts C, D, E with C having programs and my docs on and the others music and vids. I need to access my old user profile and data on the first copy of windows and transfer the data to the D or E drives and then i will be doing a complete format.
My problem is that i cannot access the my old user file, it was password protected and i get a "Denied access" error. Howcan i get access to the account, i am an admin for both and know the passwords.
I can't boot windows (the first install) so cant remove the account password that way.
Cheers for any input
EDIT - re-reading that ^ it may not be very clear, if so say and i will try again.