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Accessing folders marked private on WinXP

Posted: 2008-10-31 06:23pm
by Andrew_Fireborn
Right, so I bought a USB casing to get things off of my old computer's HDD.

Unfortunately, I'd marked the folders as private on that computer. I'm hitting a brick wall as my google-fu is apparently quite weak.

Does anyone know how to bypass it? It looked like it would work if I created a profile with the same name, but that just lets me into the now external HDD's "Documents & Settings" folder for that account and no further...

It wouldn't be an issue if I had an older shell that still worked, I could just plug the thing into it as the master and log in, but that's not an option...

Re: Accessing folders marked private on WinXP

Posted: 2008-10-31 06:25pm
by Crazy_Vasey
You need to take ownership of the folder. This link looks like it should be helpful for you.

Re: Accessing folders marked private on WinXP

Posted: 2008-10-31 06:52pm
by Andrew_Fireborn
Right, that worked. Thanks.