XP Home User Access Denied????

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Anybody,

Motherboard decided to finally give itself up over the weekend, so Iurchased
a new motherboard, and new hard-drive, with the intention of using the old
drive as a spare, after transferring the appropriate files accross to an
external drive for storage.

My problem was that I can't log on to the drive using the standard windows
boot up. It wants to start in safe mode, but just resets itself continuoisly.

I did install XP Pro onto the new drive, then added the old drive as a
slave, which gives access to all but one user folder, because it was
passworded!! How do I access this folder?? I know the password, but can't
seem to change permissions, because I am not the original administrator!!

I'm at a loss, the data is not all that critical, but just a nusiance to
research and modify the older files!!

What can be done?

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"Huthy - XP Dilemnas" <Huthy - XP
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Anybody,

Motherboard decided to finally give itself up over the weekend,
so Iurchased
a new motherboard, and new hard-drive, with the intention of
using the old
drive as a spare, after transferring the appropriate files
accross to an
external drive for storage.

My problem was that I can't log on to the drive using the
standard windows
boot up. It wants to start in safe mode, but just resets itself
continuoisly.

I did install XP Pro onto the new drive, then added the old
drive as a
slave, which gives access to all but one user folder, because
it was
passworded!! How do I access this folder?? I know the password,
but can't
seem to change permissions, because I am not the original
administrator!!

I'm at a loss, the data is not all that critical, but just a
nusiance to
research and modify the older files!!

What can be done?

(e-mail address removed)
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You need to take ownership of the files. Take a look here for the
procedure:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Nepatsfan
 
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