- Jun 24, 2001
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A friend of mine that is not on these forums (But should be posting this himself) has been using 9x for years. He got XP at the same time I did and finally kissed 9X goodbye, or maybe not. He hated XP so much, he wanted to get rid of it & reinstall the OS. He did it the same way he used to because he had no way to backup his files: He booted with a floppy and deleted every Windows file & every folder that didn't contain his stuff and then proceeded to reinstall. However, this is NTFS, so he couldn't install ME like he wanted to. I told him he'd need to delete the partition & do a fresh format, so we connected it as a secondary drive in one of my PCs to back up the files. He has GBs of his stuff in the My Documents folders and we could only get a fraction of his files that happened to be in the "Shared Documents" folder because when trying to access his user folder, we would get "Access Denied." We tried reinstalling XP over it with the same user and all it did was make the new user's folder as "Username.Username" instead of using the old "Username" folder.
Is it lost for good?
Is there any program that can get the data off (Breaking NTFS's security I'd imagine)?
How can I set up NTFS in the future with NO security settings?
How can I get it to act like a single user machine like 9x so we don't have to deal with all this multiple Start Menu & Documents Folder crap?
Thnx!
Is it lost for good?
Is there any program that can get the data off (Breaking NTFS's security I'd imagine)?
How can I set up NTFS in the future with NO security settings?
How can I get it to act like a single user machine like 9x so we don't have to deal with all this multiple Start Menu & Documents Folder crap?
Thnx!