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HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q308421
Bruce Chambers
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"Tom S" <celt_savage@direcpc.com> wrote in message
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> XP professional crashed on me with all critical update
> form Microsoft installed. It would not boot in any other
> mode but the command to a dos prompt. When booting
> safemode - or any attempted mode where the oerating
> system would come up the computer simple rebooted - a
> warm when loading the files. Either tthat of it froze up.
> either way could not access the files at all.
> Re-installed Xp pro on another partition of same
> drive. Updates all critical fixes available. It is
> working and bottable.
> Problem is I cannot access a few folders that were
> encrypted for security purposes on the previous
> instalation of the operating system. Also cannot access
> the documents saved under the previous systems setup
> prior to crash. As stated above all data is intact and
> was not removed. I re-installed xp pro in a completely
> new directory in order to preserve the old copy. Any
> Ideas for recovery of data from previous install would be
> greatly helpfull. There has to be a way to do this . I
> have all the previous login names and passwords used.