I have a laptop with xp sp2 on it. I started to have problems with the display, not sure yet if it is hardware, or software. I took the hard drive out of it and put it into a external harddrive case to remove the files i wanted before trying to restore. When I find the documents and settings. All of the ones for the administrator(on the laptop drive) are missing. I get a message that says you do not have authorization to access these, or something like that. I can vew and copy or what ever files are on the other accounts that were on the laptop drive. I am wondering, did my files possibly get erased, or because i was the administrator on the laptop, it could only be viewed on the laptop(if i could see it that is) Is there a way i can get to see and copy these files through the external hardrive. Hope someone can help