WannabePBA
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OK, I searched the forums on here and saw a thread with my exact same problem, but the girl that asked the question figured it out on her own and didn't post the solution....
I have been having problems with my brand new laptop "corrupting" my hard drives. I'm on my 3rd hard drive in less than 2 months. Best Buy's "Geek" squad tells me that I have bad luck and I keep getting bad hard drives, but I think they are full of crap. So I went out bought a case for the drives to see if they would work externally. Well, they work fine. The problem is that when they were in my laptop I had my username password protected, so I can't access any of the data in the "My Documents" on the hard drives now. I get an access denied error, because obviously the drive thinks I'm a different user (or something like that). I have about 4 years of data on there that I need to get out so I can format my drives and use them for something useful (btw, anybody in the market for an external hard drive? j/k). So my question is if there's anyway for me to go into the hard drive and delete the password file or something? I remember being able to do something similar in NT, but I don't know if its possible in XP Pro. Thanks in advance for any help.
I have been having problems with my brand new laptop "corrupting" my hard drives. I'm on my 3rd hard drive in less than 2 months. Best Buy's "Geek" squad tells me that I have bad luck and I keep getting bad hard drives, but I think they are full of crap. So I went out bought a case for the drives to see if they would work externally. Well, they work fine. The problem is that when they were in my laptop I had my username password protected, so I can't access any of the data in the "My Documents" on the hard drives now. I get an access denied error, because obviously the drive thinks I'm a different user (or something like that). I have about 4 years of data on there that I need to get out so I can format my drives and use them for something useful (btw, anybody in the market for an external hard drive? j/k). So my question is if there's anyway for me to go into the hard drive and delete the password file or something? I remember being able to do something similar in NT, but I don't know if its possible in XP Pro. Thanks in advance for any help.