recovery problem

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In news:siddharth.1sxz1n@pcbanter.net,
siddharth <siddharth.1sxz1n@pcbanter.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> i recently got a new computer and a new hard disk so i jus took a back
> up of my old one by copyin all the folders including the "my
> documents" folder for that user account.
>
> now the problem is that on my old computer my user account was
> passworded. with the result that now windows denies me acces to the my
> documents folder that i backed up from that computer. it is very
> frustrating because a lot of important files of mine are there present
> on my hard disk in my folder but windows wont let me access them
> because they are from the my documents folder of a passworded user
> account from a different windows xp installation.
>
> please help.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] 21&sd=tech

Galen
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