have you tried sharing the drive, and folders effected and joining a domain so that a network admin user can try? also what about a boot disk that will allow you acess dos?
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>My Windows XP O/S had a pretty bad meltdown recently, last week, right before the Thanksgiving Day Holiday.
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>So, since the repair option would not work, I opted to install a "new install" of XP Professional and I called the new folder \WINXP vice the original \WINDOWS folder. Now, since I have done this, I cannot access my former "\Documents and Settings\Cecil Champenois" folder. I keep getting the following error message:
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>\Documents and Settings\Cecil Champenois is not accessible
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>Access is Denied
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>Now, within Windows Explorer, I saw that this folder was set to READ ONLY. SO I unchecked the READ ONLY box. Unfortunately, it must be a deeper security issue than only unckecking this check box.
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>The question then is,
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>"How do I acccess this folder so that I can get back my emails and email address book?" Isn't there some way to get around this? I was logged in as the Administrator.