Unable to access the Old Admin folder after Reinstall

[Guest jazz]

Hi all,

 

My windows XP is corrupted and couldn't be access when it boots up.

Therefore i Installed another fresh copy of windows so that i have 2 windows

XP system in 1 Computer. However when i tried to access the documents in for

the old windows, it says access denied because i put a password on the

account for the old system. I need to retrieve some of the files in my old

account. Can anyone help me?

 

Thank you

[Guest Gordon]

Re: Unable to access the Old Admin folder after Reinstall

 

"jazz" <jazz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:CA1A7C91-83C8-4A4D-B916-C700316EDA0F@microsoft.com...

> Hi all,

>

> My windows XP is corrupted and couldn't be access when it boots up.

> Therefore i Installed another fresh copy of windows so that i have 2

> windows

> XP system in 1 Computer. However when i tried to access the documents in

> for

> the old windows, it says access denied because i put a password on the

> account for the old system. I need to retrieve some of the files in my old

> account. Can anyone help me?

>

> Thank you

 

 

Look in Help and Support for "taking ownership of files and folders". And

BTW, you probably didn't need to install a second instance of Windows - a

repair install would have been perfectly sufficient....

[Guest Malke]

Re: Unable to access the Old Admin folder after Reinstall

 

jazz wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> My windows XP is corrupted and couldn't be access when it boots up.

> Therefore i Installed another fresh copy of windows so that i have 2

> windows XP system in 1 Computer. However when i tried to access the

> documents in for the old windows, it says access denied because i put a

> password on the account for the old system. I need to retrieve some of the

> files in my old account. Can anyone help me?

 

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

 

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

 

Malke

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