Hard Drive Crash, Restoring to Original Registered User

[Guest Chym]

My hard drive crashed and the repair people were able to save my data and

programs. They reinstalled Windows XP using their own disc and registered

to: is now User where before it was registered to me ie. Sally Jo. All

programs work except a database I use which is locked, I think because the

computor does not recognize User as having authorization to access the data

base.

 

Is there a way I can restore the original Registered to or a way I can open

my data base?

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Chym

[Guest Vanguard]

Re: Hard Drive Crash, Restoring to Original Registered User

 

"Chym" wrote in message

news:A1DAD05A-A164-4B4A-9A88-920DDE62FB9E@microsoft.com...

> My hard drive crashed and the repair people were able to save my data

> and

> programs. They reinstalled Windows XP using their own disc and

> registered

> to: is now User where before it was registered to me ie. Sally Jo.

> All

> programs work except a database I use which is locked, I think because

> the

> computor does not recognize User as having authorization to access the

> data

> base.

>

> Is there a way I can restore the original Registered to or a way I can

> open

> my data base?

 

 

Probably doesn't matter what name is used for your Windows account.

Everytime a new user account is created, and new SID (security

identifier) is assigned to it. So even if you were to rename your

Windows account the SID would still be different for the new account

with the old name. The "registered to" isn't used by your database.

 

The "Administrator" account under all NT-based versions of Windows

always has the same SID. This allows hard drives to be read under

different instances of Windows for file recovery or changing

permissions. So login under the Administrator account and see if you

can get into your database to change the user setup. Don't know what

database you use since you didn't mention it (but then this isn't the

newsgroup for database configuration questions).