Am having a compaq armada Laptop that had windows xp but it crashed and window was re-installed twice without deleting the original windows folder. It was all going fine until it crashed again and this time i re-installed windows xp proffesion deleting the windows folder but leaving all files intact. No changes. but the problem is am having problems in opening one user files from my computer. I can actually see the folder and files but when i try to open it says access denied. Somebody told me to recreate the user with the same rights and password but still its not working? anyone with an idea? Microsoft help is not helping me either.
2007-02-07 17:36:30 · 3 answers · asked by josephchidwala 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
try connecting the harddisk of the laptop as the external harddisk
to some other pc and get the data
2007-02-07 17:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by sweetraskels 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Login as Administrator and you should be able to access thos files.
If you cannot find the administrator user account when you are starting the computer press the F8 Key this would bring safe mode menu and you would see admin account.
Access the folder copy all the files to a new folder .
If your Laptop has a Floppy Drive.
Get a New Blank Floppy.
Go to cmd prompt and format it using the format /s command.
Now boot your Laptop using that Floppy.
Once you are in command prompt you can create a new folder and copy all the files from the folder to the new folder.
If this doent work.
Please get back to me.
2007-02-08 01:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by Sunil Saripalli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, recreating the same username will not do it. Each user is created with a unique ID and even though you create "JoeUser" account again, it will most likely have a different user ID.
The Administrator should be able to access the file though - have you tried that?
2007-02-08 01:40:58 · answer #3 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋