Password Protection on Windows XP

[Guest trev]

email reply from 'notifyms@microsoft, offers reply link but this will not open

Please advise which discussion group has reply

I restate basic problem ... old pc unrepairable but hard disc ok and place

in external drive(E) linked to new pc. access to files and data on E denied

as old pc had password protection on opening . How do I provide password to

access these important files.

trev

[Guest Mick Murphy]

RE: Password Protection on Windows XP

 

Here is the reply that was posted in vista.admin

 

trev wrote:

> Old PC unrepairable , old hard disk ok and now set up as E drive cant access

> files as previous win xp had password entry. how do i access data on files

 

 

You'll need to take ownership of the folders/files in question. The

Knowledge Base article below refers to WinXP, but the process is the

same for Vista:

 

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421

 

 

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"trev" wrote:

> email reply from 'notifyms@microsoft, offers reply link but this will not open

> Please advise which discussion group has reply

> I restate basic problem ... old pc unrepairable but hard disc ok and place

> in external drive(E) linked to new pc. access to files and data on E denied

> as old pc had password protection on opening . How do I provide password to

> access these important files.

> trev