Need to recover password protected files – have the password?
My laptop screen broke. I removed the hard drive from the laptop, put it inside a hard drive converter box to make it an external drive on my desktop, and powered up.
I can see the laptop drive on my desktop, can access the drive to read and write, but the "my documents" "desktop", etc on the laptop drive are password protected (password entered at user account screen on XP), so when I try to access them, I get "access denied" message.
I tried setting PC to boot from laptop drive, but that didn’t work. I tried creating similar user account on PC, but that didn’t work either.
How can I get to these files? (Outlook address book, IE bookmarks, my documents, my music, desktop, etc.)
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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If the files were not encrypted, all you need to do is take ownership of them. Read up about how to take ownership of files using windows xp, especially in cases such as yours. There are plenty of tutorials. Once you take ownership of it, you can access it perfectly fine.