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Cannot Access Files from older XP Install...

BlackTigers

BlackTigers

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I have a tendency to reinstall Windows, but not delete my old install. This is so it's easier for me to retrieve bookmarks, documents, blah blah.

However, I recently reinstalled, and my old windows install cannot be booted from (BSOD), but I figured I'd just grab the files I need out of it. But whenever I go to access them, it says...

"G😀ocuments and Settings\Name is not accessible.

Access is Denied."

And I'm 9999% sure it's because I had the "keep my files private" option ticked on my old XP install.

Is there any way to get into this folder?

Help would be appreciated.
 
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
just take ownership of the folder and give yourself full access.
Click to expand...

How do I do that? It's on another partition as a remnant of an older install, and I'm locked out trying to open it.
 
Right click on it, there will be a tab / button for security / properties. Then maybe an Advanced button under that.
Somewhere in there there should be a take ownership option or similar.

You can also run a copy of explorer.exe as an Administrator account (if your main account isn't an admin) and see if that gets you in.


 
If you have trouble taking ownership... try this... (this has allowed me to recover files that are inaccessible due to NTFS permissions as long as they're not encypted, be prepared to reboot for the computer to be functional again)

Take note of the time... (it's 3:32 here)
Open a command prompt and type:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe (explorer will close, your taskbar and icons will disappear)

Then type:
at 3:34 /interactive explorer.exe

This will open explorer back up and if you click on the start button, you'll notice rather than your user name you'll see System.

This will give you privileges higher than the built in Administrator account and allow you to take ownership of any file/folder.

This WILL NOT defeat encryption and you need to be an Administrator on the local computer to run the "at" command.
 
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