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Hello,
I am using windows XP SP2. recently my boot sector got corrupted and i was happen to run a restore operation in that i have selected only to restore my OS. this did perfect without affecting the other files in that partition.
now my problem is i am not able to access my files that i have stored in the desktop before. before restoring i was using a password for that user accound and have made my files private. is there any option to recover those files. I am able to view that accounts folder in 'documents and settings' but when i try to open it i get an error stating you dont have rights to open that folder.
How can i get those files. i know the password of the old account but that accound doesnt even appears in the user accounts in control panel.

Thanks in advance....
May 23 '08 #1
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epots9
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You need to take ownership over those drives/folders/files.
May 23 '08 #2
karthi84
271 100+
You need to take ownership over those drives/folders/files.
How to do that. i know the account name and the password. please help me with a complete procedure on this
May 24 '08 #3
questionit
553 512MB
How to do that. i know the account name and the password. please help me with a complete procedure on this
Hi

Full procedure to take ownership of a file or folder:
http://www.winxptutor.com/ownership.htm

Regards
Qi
May 24 '08 #4
jg007
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just remember that if you use windows XP home the only way to take ownership and change rights for files / folders is to start up in safe mode.
May 26 '08 #5

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