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Locked out of my files!

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deku12345

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I had a dell computer that had a lot of stuff I would rather not lose on it. Of course natually I accidentally fried it. One motherboard and processor later, I tried reinstalling windows using that recovery cd that comes with dell computesr. It showed all my logins, but when I clicked on it, it told me to log in I must reactivate windows. Naturally I can't connect to the internet without configuring my interernet blah blah blah. So I tried the phone activation and it never gave me a human representative, the little machine just hung up on me.

I decided to screw that for now and tried to just use that drive as a slave drive in this computer so I can access my files. Now there are some files under my "my documents" folder that I would like to get. The problem is, I locked those files unless you were logged in to my account. (My brother was having a birthday party, and the last thing I needed was a bunch of 13 year olds going "hey look! Your brother's school paper!" *delete*) So now I can't access those files, anyway of bypassing the restriction?

Thanks.
 
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