Getting into a password protected account

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mnx12

28-10-2007 14:51:11

My computer was having major problems, I couldn't even start Windows up. So I put a new hard drive in and formatted that. Now I put the old hard drive in as a slave drive so I can get some of my old files. However my account was password protected so I cant get into my old My Documents. Is there any way to get into those files?

guelah75

28-10-2007 17:03:15

linux can, I think if you boot off a liveCD you can browse the windows partition and then copy over your My Documents folder to a thumb drive or whatever.

samz465

28-10-2007 17:06:46

[quote79dc579883="guelah75"]linux can, I think if you boot off a liveCD you can browse the windows partition and then copy over your My Documents folder to a thumb drive or whatever.[/quote79dc579883]
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure this is possible.
My friend told me he had done this in a similar situation.

-Samad

mnx12

28-10-2007 17:43:24

Yeah but I don't use linux....

TFOAF

28-10-2007 18:29:58

The CD is based on linux, it's bootable through our computer. You don't have to be running linux.

samz465

28-10-2007 18:30:18

[quote3f35c69377="mnx12"]Yeah but I don't use linux....[/quote3f35c69377]
http//www.ubuntu.com/
Download the "Live CD".
It lets you test drive the OS when you burn it onto a CD.
You don't have to install the OS or anything, it all runs off the disk.

Then you do what guelah75 said.

-Samad

ILoveToys

29-10-2007 14:18:36

knoppix works good for recovering stuff as well.

mnx12

18-12-2007 19:35:59

Sorry to bump an old thread, but where on that website is the live cd? I can't find it...

samz465

18-12-2007 19:48:10

http//www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Right there.
Just make sure you burn the image to a CD. Don't just copy the image onto the cd, otherwise it won't work properly.

mnx12

18-12-2007 20:31:08

Oh I thought it was a separate download than that one. K thanks

mnx12

19-12-2007 00:14:02

Whoo, it worked! Now I can get all the pr0....I mean important documents off my old hard drive.