PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS XP PRO

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Hi Everyone Ive got an urgent issue
I have found the hard drive that had come out of my old computer, but it will not boot to windows it just magically reboots itself, that hard disk could have anything on it, I plugged it into my new computer but I can't access my documents because they are encrypted because of my password please help, also I tried the Repair but cannot figure out the administrator password, also I tried to use the Linux Try without any affect, but it did the blinking cursor in the top left before going to a total black screen, any help would be much appriciated
 
Hey have you tried booting it in safe mode? (F8) Also is it encrypted with Bitlocker or a third party program? If its not encrypted at all and just has an administrator password with NTFS Permissions you can just set new permissions from your other machine.

You can also reset the administrator password using Offline NT Password & Registy Editor, however I wouldnt advise you do this if you are using Bitlocker.
 
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I have tried safe mode and it didnt work, I don't know what it is but it's encrypted with windows encrypted it as I created my password, it asks me do I want to block access to others and I clicked yes so windows did it with some program I don't know what service pack or anything like that it just says access denied
 
I have tried safe mode and it didnt work, I don't know what it is but it's encrypted with windows encrypted it as I created my password, it asks me do I want to block access to others and I clicked yes so windows did it with some program I don't know what service pack or anything like that it just says access denied

Try taking ownership of the folder (if it says access denied, it could just be a permission error). you can do this by right clicking -> properties -> Security Tab -> advanced > Owner Tab and then make yourself the owner and see if that works.
 
If you've used file encryption and didn't make the backup file thing on a floppy drive, you're screwed if I remember rightly.

It's not to do with file permissions and taking folder ownership
 
If you've used file encryption and didn't make the backup file thing on a floppy drive, you're screwed if I remember rightly.

It's not to do with file permissions and taking folder ownership

As far as im aware, the 'make profile private' option just removes all permissions apart from the user of the profile. I could be wrong though.
 
Hi Guys I got It booting by using the upgrade feature on windows disk but it was a miracle too good to be true and it died after an hour of operation but I removed the encryption thanks for your help
 
That's not encryption, that's file permission protection.

If they were encrypted, there's no way to get them back
 
That's not encryption, that's file permission protection.

If they were encrypted, there's no way to get them back

I think the OP just got confused when it say 'Make Profile private' option in Windows XP, as it doesnt tell what its doing to make it private.
 
Ty for all your help but this is what I did step by step
1. Insert the Windows XP Professional disk
2. Attempt a clean istallation of XP
3. When it gets to the partition page it prompts me to hit R and repair the os
4. It deletes Windows but leaves files and settings in place
5. Windows reinstalls
6. I use the 'Administrator' account to remove the passwords
7. I copy some data to a USB drive
8. I get the BSOD and my computer restarts
9. My computer could not boot to windows because 'ntfs.sys' was lost
Hard Drive defects, I hate them
 
I'd have put the hard drive in another PC and then done:-

To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:
1.Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2.Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
3.Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
4.In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
5.Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:
You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?
All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes.

Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.
6.Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
 
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