Well, I'm looking for some advice to regain access to "My Documents" (encrypted) that was lost during a hard drive crash that killed my Windows XP installation.
I attempted to reinstall windows on the original drive, but hesitated when it suggested that I could lose the previous "My Documents".
My next attempt was to take an old 10gig drive and use that as my master drive. My old drive (with the data on it) didn't crash too bad yet, so I can see my old administrator account on the old drive. When I try to access the files, I get a message "Access Denied", likely due to the fact that I had the administrator account protected.
What are my options now? Is there a way to get access to the old My Documents? If I reinstalled XP on the old drive, will My Documents be overwritten?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob
I attempted to reinstall windows on the original drive, but hesitated when it suggested that I could lose the previous "My Documents".
My next attempt was to take an old 10gig drive and use that as my master drive. My old drive (with the data on it) didn't crash too bad yet, so I can see my old administrator account on the old drive. When I try to access the files, I get a message "Access Denied", likely due to the fact that I had the administrator account protected.
What are my options now? Is there a way to get access to the old My Documents? If I reinstalled XP on the old drive, will My Documents be overwritten?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob