Accessing password protedted account

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Help!

My windows xp wont boot and have error, I created/installed another xp in the 2nd partition at was running fine. my problem is i cant access the my documents in my old account (c:\) partition as my old account has password. Icant copy everything from that account. I know the password. is there any possible way i can copy all the files in that user account.

thanks for the help

Yulo

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What is the error message you get when you try to boot?

Have you tried using a Live CD to see if you can access the documents that way ?

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What is the error message you get when you try to boot?

Have you tried using a Live CD to see if you can access the documents that way ?

there's no error. it wont just boot. when i click user account it would shutdown. so I installed an OS in the 2nd partition. how do i access the accounts in the old partition. there's no way i can boot in the old partition.

thanks

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting_File_System#Recovery

So no, it's not going to happen unless you somehow repair the old installation of xp.

But I noticed this at the bottom-

http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/index.php