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Windows NTFS Files on another account another drive

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caelric

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Ok, heres the deal. I have a laptop that had Win XP Home SP1 installed on it, and 1 account, with a password. It was my account, and I know the password.

however, the laptop bit the dust (7 months in Iraq with the Marines) The drive works fine, I bought a cheap enclosure and installed the drive in the enclosure, and can access it. The drive still is formatted as a Win XP SP1 NTFS boot drive, with a full install of windows on it.

Problem is that I can not access the My Documents folder where all my data is. I can see it, and double click on it, but I get the popup window that says "You are do not have access"blah blah blah...

So, how do I get into that folder? I know the password, and I know my log in, is there anyway to get access to the folder? Maybe I can boot from it? Can you boot from USB? Then, if I do, I don't think I would have access to the rest of the drives on my system to transfer the files to (the other drive is a RAID array and would need drivers, I would think)

As a note, the files are not encrypted.

Thanks for any help
Dave
 
If they're not encrypted, and you're an administrator, you should just be able to take ownership (Advanced Settings), and then change the permissions more if necessary.
 
Originally posted by: MSCoder610
If they're not encrypted, and you're an administrator, you should just be able to take ownership (Advanced Settings), and then change the permissions more if necessary.
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If your accessing the drive from Windows XP Home, you'll need to boot into safe mode, then go to the properties of your 'My Documents' folder, and switch to the 'Security' tab. from there you make your new/current account the owner will 'Full Control'. (If your accessing the files from XP Pro system then you can do this without booting to safemode).

And as said above, this is as long as they were not encrypted, if they are, then your SOL.
 
It is XP Pro, SP 2, and the solution above worked. They were not encrypted.

Got them all nice and neat now, thanks for the help.

dave
 
I don't know much about laptop HD's but is there any way of just slipping it into a pc as the master boot drive and using it that way??
 
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