accessing password protected folders

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In the past I had an old HD and put a password on my user acount and folders,
my computer then crashed and since then I forgot the password to the user
account. I now have a new computer and I'm trying to access that account by
connecting the old HD to the new computer, but of course when I try to access
the folder through the new computer it says Access Denied: I need to access
that folder on Drive E:, those files are incredibly important to me.

Please help me !
 
Fredo said:
In the past I had an old HD and put a password on my user acount and folders,
my computer then crashed and since then I forgot the password to the user
account. I now have a new computer and I'm trying to access that account by
connecting the old HD to the new computer, but of course when I try to access
the folder through the new computer it says Access Denied: I need to access
that folder on Drive E:, those files are incredibly important to me.

Please help me !
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If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder
private is something completely different from encryption), you may be
facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried
taking ownership of the old folders?

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421


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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
 
A'right, so apparently I don't know how to start up Windows XP Home in safe
mode. I tried F12 and it gave me seven choices: 1) Normal 2) Primary Master
Drive 3) Hard Disk Drive C 4) IDE CD-ROM Device 5) System Setup 6) IDE Drive
Diagnosis 7) Boot to Utility Partition....

??
 
Fredo said:
A'right, so apparently I don't know how to start up Windows XP Home in safe
mode. I tried F12 and it gave me seven choices: 1) Normal 2) Primary Master
Drive 3) Hard Disk Drive C 4) IDE CD-ROM Device 5) System Setup 6) IDE Drive
Diagnosis 7) Boot to Utility Partition....
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Press <F8> as soon as the boot sequence starts.


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Bruce, I'm doing things step by step and I'm getting "The Blue Screen of
Death" with this message: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Man, I really hope this is
possible.
 
Between the BIOS post screen and XP actually starting to load press F8. When you get the boot menu choose the Safe Mode option.

Alternatively, boot Windows normally, click Start, Run and enter MSCONFIG Go to the BOOT.INI tab. Check the option for /SAFEBOOT and apply the changes. Reboot. The computer will come up in Safe Mode automatically. When you're finished, run MSCONFIG again and uncheck the option.
 
So I did that last little tid-bit and now my computer will boot up, show the
WinXP loading page then go to the 'Stop' blue screen, I can't even use the
computer anymore ! I had to respond from work. Please help me get the
computer back up.
 
What is the full STOP error message? It looks something like this:

STOP 0x000000D1, (0x0000002b, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xEEEE1b01) IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Kbdclass.sys.
 
Yes indeed....please help me.

Doug Knox MS-MVP said:
What is the full STOP error message? It looks something like this:

STOP 0x000000D1, (0x0000002b, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xEEEE1b01) IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Kbdclass.sys.
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