There is a problem with the hard drive in my laptop, it needs formatted and a reinstallation of Windows XP. I’m trying to back-up my data first so I’ve put the hard drive in my PC (with 2.5-3.5" adaptor) my computer sees it fine but it won’t give me access to the "Documents & Setting Folder" where all my data is saying it’s password protected. From looking online it’s because my laptop hard drive is password protected (windows log on screen). Is there anyway to remove the Windows XP password on my laptop drive from Windows XP on my computer?

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Hi there,

My old Windows XP had become corrupt and a computer guy said I had to re-install it. I didn’t want to remove the older XP since I still had lots of data in the "My Documents" folder, so he installed a new version of XP on the same drive while letting the old one still be around ther though "deactivated". Now I can’t access my old "My Documents" since the user account in the old (now inactive) XP was password protected. How can I access this old account in the inactive version to copy my old files into the new account?

Very very grateful for any help!
Thanks for your detailed answer.

However, the old XP is not installed on an inactive partitiion. The computer guy simply installed the newversion in a new folder, while the old XP is still accessable in the WINDOWS folder. It’s when I go to the folder where I have my old "My Documents" and try to open it that I get a message that the folder is Not Accessable, due to being password protected. So I can still access all the old XP files, just not this password protected folder. Is there a way to start up the old XP from inside the new one and get into that old user account that way (since I still konw the password). Or is there any other way of doing it?

Thanks so much!

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I recently had Windows XP Home Edition..but something went wrong and the Explorer.exe file got corrupted. I got hold of Windows XP Professional Edition and I installed that instead of reloading theHome Edition. Now, I have two Hard Drives, one of which I used to back up music and photos and other important stuff from my documents and other users documents as well (there are 5 user accounts on my PC). Now the new Version of Windows is installed, I’m seeing the user documents from the PREVIOUS version as well as the user documents for the current version when I open the Documents and Settings Folder. The problem is: I can’t access my own folder, nor the folder that I backed up to the second hard drive and I’m guessing it’s because I was the only user that had a password when the files were backed up. I get an "access denied" message.

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i have set a password for my windows xp account. The password is in english then when I restart my computer again the characters of my keyboard shifted to arabic letters. So no matter how i enter the correct password, i am unable to access my account. how can i recover my password/ how can i change the language without access to the main windows?

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Here’s the situation: I have a user account in Windows Xp and I made a password for it; then I decided to remove the password. When I tried to open My Documents using other User Account, it cannot be opened and there’s a Window opened indicating, "<File Path> is not accessible. Access is denied." I hope someone can help me in this. Thanks.

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