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stevejebson
04-21-2003, 06:15 PM
I'm a complete beginner in this, i just bought a laptop, had it 3 weeks, made the mistake of thinking i didn't need backups just yet ! Couldn't boot laptop, kept looping round to rebooting even in safe mode ended up re installing win xp pro into different directory. All my data is in a My Documents folder in an old original account. I can see the folder in internet explorer but get "access denied" even though i'm logged on as administrator. I though administrator was God ?

Can i do anything tyo get at old directories,


help appreciated

Steve

Andy-S
04-28-2003, 12:54 PM
Try taking ownership of the directories.

Cheers
Andy