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Old 05-01-2008, 11:13 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tlarkin View Post
You most likely made your user folder private, and in doing so encrypted it. Then when you overinstalled you can no longer access your data. This is typical behavior when you make your user folder private.

You will need a third party utility like ERD (which is uber expensive) to boot from and unlock your folder.

Too bad windows doesn't have a powerful enough command line, otherwise you could accomplish this from the CLI.
Try booting with a SLAX LiveCD. SLAX has NTFS read/write support, and it can access protected files. I've had to do this on more than one occasion.
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