disabling private folder option from my documents on external driv

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I have an external harddisk that has windowsxp media center 2002 installed on
it and has the My Documents folder set to Private. My PC has installed on it
windows xp home edition. Is there any way that i break through the security
on the external harddisk to retrieve my documents? Any sort of help would be
greatly appreciated.
 
Sure. Logon as administrator and change permissions to what you want it to
be. If you can not do that you will first need to take ownership of those
folders being sure to select the option to replace owner on subcontainers
and objects. The owner of a folder/file can change permissions even if they
currently have no permissions. The links below explain more on how to take
ownership and change permissions. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418
 
Many thanks Steven. I have 1 more problem though...I have a lot of emails and
contatcs in outlook 2003 on the external harddisk, what software can i use to
extract them? Many thanks again. Roland
 
I suggest you post in an Outlook newsgroup for the best way to proceed. I am
almost certain it can be done but I am familiar with Outlook Express. ---
Steve
 
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