Unlocking 'restricted' files??

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Silent_Samurai

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Recently I fried the motherboard on one of my computers, and I need to access the files that are on the hard drive that was installed in that computer. I have already connected the hard drive to my second computer, initially as a 2nd drive, and though the computer recognizes the hard drive it proceeds to tell me that the files on that drive are "restricted" so I was basically told by the telephone IT people that I need to boot the computer from the secondary hard drive in order to access any of the files. However when I go into the BIOS menus the computer only recognizes that computers initial hard drive. So I disconnected the original drive and hooked up the old drive as the primary but the computer is unable to read it or access the BIOS menu.

Is there any other way to get the computer to either recognize the drive in the BIOS menu or bypass the restriction that is on the old hard drive?

BTW the 1st computer is a E-machine C2850 from '03 and the 2nd is a Compaq Presario from '02. I don't know if that will matter or not.
 
When you had your old PC you had a login and Pw right? Try changeing your current windows login to match that, then restart the pc. It should work...
 
Thanks for the advice.

Trizoy said:
When you had your old PC you had a login and Pw right? Try changeing your current windows login to match that, then restart the pc. It should work...
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I have tried your advice, unfortunately it did not work. The 2 hard drives have different OSs intalled on them. The one I am trying to salvage has XP Pro SP2 whereas the one that still works has XP Home w/o and service packs.

The Purple Champ said:
try setting the second drive as master then boot in safe mode.
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I cannot boot from the other drive at the moment because the BIOS will not recognize the drive.

I am updating the service packs and the motherboard BIOS, then will try again.
 
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