v62kaccord

ok guys to make the story short.. i just got a new comp cuz my old comp just wouldnt come on anymore.. i took the old comp's hdd and put it as a slave on the new comp, but because i had put a pw on my username on my old one i can't access my files!!! ahhhhhh so what do i do to regain access.. when i put the old hdd as a master, it just would not boot and keeps restarting the computer because i guess there's something wrong (i think a virus).

still kinda long sorry

thnx for ur help in advance

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If you mean you set NTFS permissions then you should be able to use your Administrator account to take ownership of the files, then change the permissions.

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v62kaccord

what do you mean ntsf permissions?

ok my old hdd had a windows xp, and u know the log on screen.. i had like 3 names 1 for me, my bro, and sis.. well i wanna recover all those stuff by putting it as a slave drive on this new comp but i cant cuz it won't give me access to it.. help

Cromewell

try using the administrator account, it should have unrestricted access to everything

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v62kaccord

well i can't reboot on that hdd and log in as an administrator, it would just keep rebooting the computer, i guess tehre's a virus or something...i can see the files that are in the hdd if i put it as a slave.. but i can't get the stuff in user's folders cuz it's not accessible.. any way to go around it?

Cromewell

I meant using the admin account on on the one you can boot off of

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v62kaccord

i still can't oh well, does anyone know a good virus scanner that will scan the virus in there..? i had norton in there but it did jack

Praetor

NTFS adds on FAT32 by adding header info to sector data that defines who/what can access data

Except if the other accounts have EFS on (i think then again I never had a problem getting around that either)

Cant what> If you "cant" then that means the drive is toasted (physically)

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