I thought I knew how to do this, but I guess I don’t.  I have a working hard drive 
that has some information that I would like to retrieve.  The hard drive belongs 
to a friend whom has forgotten the password.  Efforts with password reset programs 
have failed, as has the usual work around where you use Safe Mode to log in as an 
Administrator to reset.  I guess it’s because it’s an older version of XP, maybe 
Service Pack 1?

In the past I have been able to simply hook the hard drive as a secondary drive in 
my own desktop.  By that I mean hooking it up to the IDE cable.  Usually it will 
show up as a secondary drive in “My Computer”.  But this one doesn’t even show, and 
I’m not sure why.

I’ve tried every possible jumper configuration.  Even leaving the jumpers off, but 
to no avail.

Am I missing something?  It is an IBM hard drive, if that makes any difference.

Thanks,
David

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