Innaccessible Hard Drive

I have a hard drive that will not boot up. I am able however to load it into
another PC and set it up as a slave. I was going to backup all the profiles
onto the PC and then put the faulty disk back into the other PC, and
re-install the operating system, then copy the backup across to the newly
formatted hard drive. The problem is that some of the users have setup
access passwords on their profiles and when I try to copy the data I am told
that I cannot access it. Is there anyway around this issue?

Thanks

I forgot to mention that the operating system on the faulty drive is Windows
XP Home edition and I am inserting the drive as a slave into a Windows XP
Pro environment. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"Zinzan" <billy.low@virgin.net> wrote in message
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>I have a hard drive that will not boot up. I am able however to load it
>into another PC and set it up as a slave. I was going to backup all the
>profiles onto the PC and then put the faulty disk back into the other PC,
>and re-install the operating system, then copy the backup across to the
>newly formatted hard drive. The problem is that some of the users have
>setup access passwords on their profiles and when I try to copy the data I
>am told that I cannot access it. Is there anyway around this issue?
>
> Thanks
>

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
In XP Home you have to boot in safe mode to see the security tab. In XP Pro
you have to disable simple file sharing.

"Zinzan" <billy.low@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:dph8lm$bgh$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>I forgot to mention that the operating system on the faulty drive is
>Windows XP Home edition and I am inserting the drive as a slave into a
>Windows XP Pro environment. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> "Zinzan" <billy.low@virgin.net> wrote in message
> news:dph8oe$f9k$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>>I have a hard drive that will not boot up. I am able however to load it
>>into another PC and set it up as a slave. I was going to backup all the
>>profiles onto the PC and then put the faulty disk back into the other PC,
>>and re-install the operating system, then copy the backup across to the
>>newly formatted hard drive. The problem is that some of the users have
>>setup access passwords on their profiles and when I try to copy the data I
>>am told that I cannot access it. Is there anyway around this issue?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>