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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 28th at 7:28pm 2004

First I got annoying messages telling me that original windows files had been deleted and replaced with unknown files. At this point I didn't have any firewall installed (yes, I am stupid). After a while my computer stopped working, so I decided to reinstall windows on my other, smaller HD so I at least could save some of my files.

The only problem is that I can't gain access to files in the other accounts on the "big" HD. When I reinstalled windows on the "big" HD I couldn't log in to those old accounts either...

How am I supposed to gain access to the files in the "old" accounts again? Is there any kind of "software" I can download to hack them or something?

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Posted by Leperous on Fri May 28th at 7:33pm 2004

What accounts are you talking about?



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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 28th at 7:36pm 2004

Windows user accounts [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Fri May 28th at 7:38pm 2004

XP or 98 or ME or...?



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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 28th at 7:42pm 2004

XP Pro [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri May 28th at 7:44pm 2004

Copy them to your Documents and settings dir on your windows drive, then they should be accesseble by the admin acount, they should be anyway, strange... [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Fri May 28th at 7:45pm 2004

Hit F8 when you start up and go into safe mode. Should be able to access all files then.



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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 28th at 7:57pm 2004

I tried safe mode and logged in as admin, but I couldn't access or copy the folders... [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Fri May 28th at 8:12pm 2004

I'd recommend a virus scan to see if you're infected. These are two free online virus scanners:


http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri May 28th at 8:48pm 2004

What does it say when you try and access them? Your HD may be slightly screwed or those sectors of the disk may be corrupted therefore won't work. You may need to use a data recovery program on those files. [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 28th at 9:22pm 2004

I have a swedish version of windows, but I'll post some pics of it anyway:


Problem when copying file/folder
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Can't be created or replaced if: Access denied
Make sure the disk isn't full, protected or being used.
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Problem when copying file/folder
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Can't copy NTUSER. Access denied.
Make sure the disk isn't full, protected or being used.
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My translation is quite crappy since I don't have the english version...
I virus-scaned with Panda and there was 1312 infected files, lol

[EDIT]
I don't have a clue what the NTUSER file in the second pic is...

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Posted by Leperous on Fri May 28th at 9:25pm 2004

I doubt there will be a program to 'hack' it for you, XP uses the NTFS file system which I believe is designed to prevent that kind of thing- so basically if you did convert your HD to this file system from FAT when you installed XP then you're screwed if this copying method doesn't work



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri May 28th at 9:56pm 2004

Oh wait you changed file system?! That screws everything up lol!

I do believe your data is dead now

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Posted by Rumple on Sat May 29th at 8:25am 2004

I did find a program that did let you access other accounts files when you couldnt get in to them ill see if i can find it again

but if you did change the filesystem there gone

*goes searching*

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Posted by OtZman on Sat May 29th at 6:46pm 2004

I don't even know how to change the file systems... maybe I did that without knowing. How exactly do I change the file systems?

? posted by Myrk-

I do believe your data is dead now

Will the data "die" after a certain time?

Rumple, plz find that program for me if you can. Maybe it could help me out...

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 29th at 8:42pm 2004

*scratches buttocks*

*ignores tacky consistency of fingers*

uhh, you don't suppose its all that screwy text do you?

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Posted by OtZman on Sat May 29th at 8:50pm 2004

what do you mean Orph ?

? posted by Myrk-
You may need to use a data recovery program on those files.

Where can I find one of those? (I'm gogglin' right now after one, but perhaps one of you know where I can find a good one)

By the way, I think those annoying messages telling me that windows files had been replaced began appearing after installing MSN Messenger 6.2...

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 29th at 8:52pm 2004

? posted by OtZman

what do you mean Orph ?

*whistles tuneless melody*

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Posted by OtZman on Sat May 29th at 8:53pm 2004

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat May 29th at 10:48pm 2004

If you convert from NTFS to FAT, you get 8-character file names I think. Then only way to do it is to make all the free space on the drive to be converted into a new partition, format it with the new filesystem, then move all files that will fit from the old partition into this one. If they won't all fit at once, you will have to expand the partition with the new file system once it is full, using the space you freed up with the moving.




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