RE: Reset Windows password - help please!

[Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim, are those "inaccessible" files actually encrypted with
bitlocker or
some other 3rd party encryption tool? - or is it just the case that the
permissions don't allow access?

If the former, then you probably have to pretty much forget it, (or least
go
through a long & tortuous process to try & get them decrypted).

If the latter, then you should just be able to take ownership of the files
in question from the root level of the drive, and propagate new permissions
all the way down through the filesystem. Your description of the folder
appearing empty sounds like it could be the latter, and you don't currently
even have the "list directory" right on the folder in question...

HTH

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tim Hawes
Sent: 26 October 2010 08:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Reset Windows password - help please!

Perhaps not the usual password-reset problem...

I've got a friend with a dead laptop (suspected mobo fault) but with a
working HDD. Connecting the HDD to another PC via a USB HDD adaptor she can
see files in the common user area but not those in her user area which has
a
user ID & password.

She knows the user password it's just that the laptop wont boot, so firing
it up and resetting it, or booting it from CD with a freeware utility to
reset it are out of the question.
We/she has no spare similar laptop to put the HDD into to boot up and
remove the password.

How can we/she access her user files - the adaptor doesn't prompt for a
password etc. and hovering over the folder says its "empty" (it's
not).

There must be a way, and I'm struggling with the right terms to google
with.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Tim.


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