Documents and Settings will not open on external hard drive
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Hello,
So my computer crashed, not sure exactly why but i was able to remove the hard drive and attach it to another laptop running the same operating system windows xp.
The drive is recognized and i can access program files and pretty much every folder EXCEPT "Documents and Settings".
I followed the instructions for taking owneship of files and folders..and this appears to have been successful with all folders except D&S.
When i check other folders i can open..I notice that Administrators is listed first in Groups or User Names.
For D&S the first one listed is "acct. unknow s-1 5-32 547 .
The folder is 22 gb...
How do i get access to these files...much thanks
So my computer crashed, not sure exactly why but i was able to remove the hard drive and attach it to another laptop running the same operating system windows xp.
The drive is recognized and i can access program files and pretty much every folder EXCEPT "Documents and Settings".
I followed the instructions for taking owneship of files and folders..and this appears to have been successful with all folders except D&S.
When i check other folders i can open..I notice that Administrators is listed first in Groups or User Names.
For D&S the first one listed is "acct. unknow s-1 5-32 547 .
The folder is 22 gb...
How do i get access to these files...much thanks
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timaee said:
Hello, So my computer crashed, not sure exactly why but i was able to remove the hard drive and attach it to another laptop running the same operating system windows xp.
The drive is recognized and i can access program files and pretty much every folder EXCEPT "Documents and Settings".
I followed the instructions for taking owneship of files and folders..and this appears to have been successful with all folders except D&S.
When i check other folders i can open..I notice that Administrators is listed first in Groups or User Names.
For D&S the first one listed is "acct. unknow s-1 5-32 547 .
The folder is 22 gb...
How do i get access to these files...much thanks
Have you tried dragging it to the shared documents folder ?
Here are some pertinent links to the account unknown....
http://www.bing.com/search?q=folder+acct.+unknow+s-1+5-...
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