Quote Originally Posted by pearl03
>I have attempted removing the harddrive and putting it into another computer and accessing it that way: this gets me the closest. I can access my prgrms and everything but I cannot get to my documents, music, and pictures- all of which are important- school docs, music I paid for, and pics of a family vacation overseas. The admin profile is now a folder which I cannot access- I have tried taking ownership by logging on to the computer with the other harddrive's admin account but when I right click and select properties there is no security tab on the "access-denied" folder.
Try persevere with this. There should be a way that you can take ownership of the folder to access it's contents. It has worked for me on many occasions.

Try the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/default...308421&sd=tech