OK, if you saw my thread on the general forum you will know the keypad on my laptop died.
Problem is the laptop has a bios password and a xp password ....
I have removed hard drive and inatalled it on a pc as a slave. I have accessed the shared folders but need to access my .pst and main "my documents " which are not accessable as they aren't shared folders.
If anyone has a solution please pm me as I realise this is a sensitive area.
And yes I know I should have backed up more frequently then once a week ;)
regrds
Chris
if you log onto the pc as administrator all directories should be accessable by you.
Cheers Gary,
The hard drive was originally master on the laptop when the data waws created and is now slave on another pc will that make a diffreence (I say this as I had removed the drive from the test bed and will have to stick it back in when the kids allow me to use their machine again)
regrds
Chris
shouldn't , admins can usually see everything on a pc , only individual users are stopped from viewing others files.
Right, after James Bond I'll give it a go, does it need to be as "Administrator" as I am normally logged on to that pc with full admin rights?
Other problem was that laptop (a Sony Vaio) was bios protected and even removing the watch battery didn't allow it to boot up so ?I could try and adda usb keyboard...........
not sure , if you have admin rights , that should be enough.
have a look here
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
Right there look to be a couple of useful bits in and links there.
I hadn't looked at MS site as I didn't think they would post work arounds to security features..............
Success, on security you take ownership...
just need to find me outlook file, I thought they were saved as .pst?
Thanks again for the help
Chris
.pst files tend to be in your data area
c:\windows\application data\microsoft\outlook\outlook.pst , unless like me you make it in a different directory on your 'data' drive.
Yup, some of the folders had retained their protection so didn't show up in initial searches, coupled with the fact that I had changed the location of the pst file.
Anyway all found and backed up.
Really does make you wonder about windows as a password protected environment though.
you can of course encrypt the pst file from within outlook , and if you don't know the code , as any thief would find , it isn't as easy to do the above.
Really does make you wonder about windows as a password protected environment though.
Think that's a bit of a security risk. If you take the HD out into another windows system you can easily replace the screensaver run by windows during login with another by renaming the files.
Of course, Screen savers are just normal windows executables, so CMD.EXE renamed to .scr would be a valid screen saver.
Result? Reboot the PC with the altered drive and within a few minutes you have a command line that has full privileges and from that it is easy to invoke the computer management program to create a true user with Administrator rights to wander about the system 
Though to be fair, no computer system is secure when you have physical access to it.
Steven