Access Denied to user folder after opsys reinstall XP Home..

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I reinstalled the XP home from my partitioned drive that was shipped with my
new HP, and as it installed it backed up the users data. After the install I
went to the windows explorer and clicked on my old user and it said access
denied. I logged in as admin and got the same message. My user was password
protected and had been checked as private. Now the folder sits in on the
crive with all of my personal docs inside, but I cannot access the folder.
Is there a way to restore the user, or login in to it? The old users that
were not password protected could be accessed and I copied their datafiles
into the new users I created for them, I just can't access my own stuff and
copy to my new user. This leaves me with a folder that will never be
accessable and drive space that cannot be recovered as well as a loss of all
my business databases.

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How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] duct=winxp

"Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
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"jrhizor" wrote:

| I reinstalled the XP home from my partitioned drive that was shipped with my
| new HP, and as it installed it backed up the users data. After the install I
| went to the windows explorer and clicked on my old user and it said access
| denied. I logged in as admin and got the same message. My user was password
| protected and had been checked as private. Now the folder sits in on the
| crive with all of my personal docs inside, but I cannot access the folder.
| Is there a way to restore the user, or login in to it? The old users that
| were not password protected could be accessed and I copied their datafiles
| into the new users I created for them, I just can't access my own stuff and
| copy to my new user. This leaves me with a folder that will never be
| accessable and drive space that cannot be recovered as well as a loss of all
| my business databases.