Accessing Private Data

[karthi84]

Hello,
I am using windows XP SP2. recently my boot sector got corrupted and i was happen to run a restore operation in that i have selected only to restore my OS. this did perfect without affecting the other files in that partition.
now my problem is i am not able to access my files that i have stored in the desktop before. before restoring i was using a password for that user accound and have made my files private. is there any option to recover those files. I am able to view that accounts folder in 'documents and settings' but when i try to open it i get an error stating you dont have rights to open that folder.
How can i get those files. i know the password of the old account but that accound doesnt even appears in the user accounts in control panel.

Thanks in advance....

[epots9]

You need to take ownership over those drives/folders/files.

[karthi84]

You need to take ownership over those drives/folders/files.

How to do that. i know the account name and the password. please help me with a complete procedure on this

[questionit]

How to do that. i know the account name and the password. please help me with a complete procedure on this

Hi

Full procedure to take ownership of a file or folder:
http://www.winxptutor. com/ownership.htm

Regards
Qi

[jg007]

just remember that if you use windows XP home the only way to take ownership and change rights for files / folders is to start up in safe mode.