I am trying to recieve some files off my brothers old Hard drive. his pc has a broken motherboard.
i have jumpered his drive as a slave and the computer is booting up fine. the problem is he had a password on his windows xp account and now i cant
access his files. I can still see the shared files on the drive. I have tried booting up the computer with his as the primary drive but it wont boot
up
any ideas on how to access these files?
I am running windows xp pro as was he and they are both ATA drives.
cheers.
[Edited on 17/1/06 by benji106]
One word, of 3 letters...
DOS
Thats should do it.
Otherwise there are various little programs available to get around windows XP passwords (for legit use only of course). Search my username on here
with password as the search term. You should find it then.
David
[Edited on 17/1/06 by flak monkey]
U could try this http://www.knoppix.org/ its a linux o/s on a bootable cd, can read ntfs etc u can also move files as well ( u might have to change
options to be able to write the data u want to retrieve to your hdd thou )
Good luck Jonno
found this to walk me through it
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
before i read the replies. Thanks anyway
BTW very useful if anyone has the same problem
quote:
Originally posted by jonno
U could try this http://www.knoppix.org/ its a linux o/s on a bootable cd, can read ntfs etc u can also move files as well ( u might have to change options to be able to write the data u want to retrieve to your hdd thou )
Good luck Jonno