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Ok, so, my primary computer went haywire today. I dunno who screwed with it or how, but the system was unable to boot WinXP today, not even in safe mode. So I tried HP's system recovery tools, which basically reinstalled WinXP and all the old drivers. Joy of joys. Now, getting to my main problem for the moment.. each user account was archived, and I am able to access the documents from the now-extinct Tal side through Owner; however, I cannot access my oldest sister's documents, nor my mother's. They had protected them from outside use before, and now that the accounts are dead, "Access is denied." Can't be reached at all.

Any practical suggestions?

Can you do it in a friend's PC with Win2000? It should help using "owner". And there was a proggy NTFSDOS that can access files (DOS/win98 diskette)

An Administrator can unlock the old account documents... but I forget exactly how. Try going into Documents and Settings, right-clicking one of their directories, and somehow changing the permissions to allow you to get the information. Sorry, maybe try to bug Phoenix or WC, I think they helped me when I had the same problem.

Do you have a NTFS or FAT filesystem? If it's FAT, then it's the OS preventing access, easily overridden. If it's NTFS, then it's the actual *filesystem* preventing access. In that case, restart in safe mode and unlock your disk mounts.

I guess now is a better time than ever to forget how to boot up in safe mode. Since I did forget, indeed. dang it.

*edit* got it. Now, how to unlock disk mounts...?

hack accounts: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

No worries, I've got it now. Safe mode, admin, permission granting all over the place. Rock, rock on.

A big, hearty FU... er... THANK YOU to everyone who replied.

well...

Well... that message was insightful.

Anywho. Two more inquiries for anyone who cares:

1. Where is Outlook Express mail saved to by default? (I can probably find it myself over time, but if anyone spots it before me, that's all the better)

2. Where can I find Kazaa Lite (preferably the most recent version available)? And yes, I know that's irrelevant to my computer woes.

Tal,

To get Kazaa lite (which isn't as easily found anymore due to the court cases), head over to: http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=kazaalite

Concerning Outlook mail - give me some slack for this answer (I absolutely refuse to use any product so virus-afflicted), as even though I'm running on XP, I've managed to rid my system of the viral product.

Thinking back to where I found it on other computers... uhm.. I believe the standard directory would normally be something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\

Good luck,
Matrice

No, that would be Outlook.

Outlook Express is here:

C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{CLSID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

{CLSID} is a giant-ass long string in hex.

and than you've got to open those files... (inbox.dbx, offline.dbx, outbox.dbx, send.dbx, etc...)