PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS XP PRO

JaguarLover · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:07

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

JaguarLover · 17 Oct 2011 at 08:00

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

JaguarLover · 17 Oct 2011 at 21:59

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

JaguarLover · 18 Oct 2011 at 20:09

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