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| Thread ID: 63198 | 2005-11-01 21:20:00 | Can't access accounts from old install of Windows XP. | ojibwa (8968) | Press F1 |
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| 401129 | 2005-11-01 21:20:00 | About a year ago I reinstalled windows, and I did not format the harddrive because there are other people who use this PC with data that they could not lose (or backup) . Ever since then every account that existed in the previous install still shows up in Documents and Settings but cannot be accessed . I just did a defragmentation, and in the report a 4 . 2Gb fragmented file showed up that's within one of the accounts that I cannot access . Fragments------File Size------Files that cannot be defragmented ----2-----------4 . 32 GB------\Documents and Settings\Jason . ALEX\My Documents\Jason\Torrents\Where The Buffalo Roam . nrg I'm assuming most people are going to tell me to clean install, or backup and then clean install . At the moment I don't have an extra harddrive, or any disks to burn to (and my burner doesn't work right) . If anyone knows of a way I can gain access to these accounts and get rid of them, it'd be swell . I've full administrator access, this message comes up if I try to access any one of the four accounts from the previous install (using Windows Explorer): C:\Documents and Settings\"account" is not accessible . Access is denied . |
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| 401130 | 2005-11-01 21:49:00 | Hey, I have got the same problem accessing user accounts but haven't reloaded windows so maybe that was not a contributing factor . Hope somebody can help us both. | NIGGEL (2358) | ||
| 401131 | 2005-11-01 21:52:00 | support.microsoft.com | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 401132 | 2005-11-02 03:40:00 | :eek: Thanks for the link Rob! I've been given back 21Gb on my harddrive :thumbs: |
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| 401133 | 2005-11-02 04:36:00 | And when that doesn't work (I have had this) then you access it via DOS. | pctek (84) | ||
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