re: the answer Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 11:52 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Satish (1 messages posted) Jessica, Can you give us the exact steps to follow so that we can get data retreived as i am facing the same problem that frank had. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 10:45 am, jessica wrote: >I figured it out! >Just boot your computer, and press F8 to chose from boot options. Select the harddrive >or whatever windows is on, and before you select the OS, press F8 again, to choose >the mode you want to use. Choose Safe Mode and go into windows as Administrator >(password is just 'enter' if you haven't yet set it). Once you are in, you can go >to the Documents and Settings area, and play around with the ownership and access >to the files. Make sure you select the box that applies the new properties to all >sub files and folders of that profile directory.... just play around with stuff, >and do this until you can get in. Make sure you add access for the profile (account) >that you usually login with - don't leave it as adminstrator only, or you'll have >to go into safe mode any time you want to access the files. > >jessica Written in response to: re: the answer (jessica otte: Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 10:45 am) Responses to this message: re: the answer (Jainash: Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 7:27 am) All messages in this thread [show all] win XP re-install (sergent: Tue, Sep 18, 2001, 12:04 pm) re: win XP re-install (scott taylor: Tue, Oct 30, 2001, 8:06 am) re: win XP re-install (|debug: Wed, Jan 9, 2002, 6:09 am) re: win XP re-install (mrh: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 2:11 am) the answer (Alex: Mon, Jun 10, 2002, 5:25 pm) re: the answer (Matt: Mon, Sep 30, 2002, 8:29 pm) re: the answer (Martin Fullbrook: Mon, Oct 28, 2002, 12:51 pm) re: the answer (Noah: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 11:51 pm) Re: Thanks (Joel: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 3:06 am) re: the answer (vir: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 9:16 am) re: the answer (jessica otte: Fri, Jan 31, 2003, 8:45 pm) re: the answer (Paul: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 12:08 am) re: the answer (jessica otte: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 10:45 am) re: the answer (Satish: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 11:52 pm) re: the answer (Jainash: Sun, Mar 7, 2004, 7:27 am) re: the answer (frank: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 1:19 pm) re: the answer (Elvis gates: Sun, Oct 12, 2003, 8:35 am) recover XP on an other machine (dom bertrand: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 9:07 am) re: the answer (Haps: Tue, Dec 2, 2003, 2:17 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum