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Old 05-July-06, 12:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default My documents file recovery

So I had windows bug out on me. Had to reinstall it over the old copy. Problem is now when i try to go to my old directory for my pictures. D:\documents and settings\fox i get the error message d:\documents and settings\fox is not accessible. Access is denied.

Any ideas how I can get to this folder? I'm guessing windows has it locked since i'm not logged on to that username... problem is I have no way to log on to that user name since I reinstalled windows and that user name no longer exists... Help.
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Old 05-July-06, 02:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Maybe you can do an "Image" search for pictures and see if it lets you in that way?

If not try making it a slave drive on another PC and do the search again, you can then just drag ond drop them wherever you want, thats how I have done it before.
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Old 05-July-06, 06:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
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so let me get this straight...
You reinstalled windows over an older version, and in the process lost some file?

If so, you should check out this program;
It costs $100, but it works. I have used it before and I got everything back.
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Old 05-July-06, 06:59 PM   #4 (permalink)
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So I had windows bug out on me. Had to reinstall it over the old copy. Problem is now when i try to go to my old directory for my pictures. D:\documents and settings\fox i get the error message d:\documents and settings\fox is not accessible. Access is denied.

Any ideas how I can get to this folder? I'm guessing windows has it locked since i'm not logged on to that username... problem is I have no way to log on to that user name since I reinstalled windows and that user name no longer exists... Help.



this is probably the most obvious suggestion but ussually logging in with the "Administrator" account solves most of these "locking" problems ....
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Old 05-July-06, 07:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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The reason I cant logon to the admin account is because it doesnt exist anymore... its a new copy of windows. I finally just made a boot disk with a dos ntfs program on it and manually copied em over.
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