URGENTLY NEED HELP.

[Winapp2.ini]

My windows copy crapped out on me and randomly died, I re-installed windows (new dir. C:\Windows.0) and all my old files are still in place but I can't access my old %userprofile% which has about 99% of what I want. How can I access these files? (C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ was my old userprofile, all the files are there but I get ACCESS DENIED when attempting to open the folder, and I dont want to log on to the Administrator account for fear it will overwrite my old profile)

[fireryone]

If you are running Xp Pro or later try taking ownership

 

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

 

If XP Home i've had alot of trouble.

there was a way to get the "id" of the previous user and hack it to your new user which worked when i did it but i cant find the process at the moment.

[fireryone]

or try this to elevate your user rights to "system"

 

 

1. Initiate a command prompt window.

2. Type at {exactly1minutepast} /interactive cmd.exe

Replace the italicized text with 1 minute after the current time of course.

3. Wait until the command window pops up and open task manager.

4. Kill the explorer.exe process.

5. In the command prompt, type explorer.exe.

6. Close the command prompt.

7. Open Control Panel.

8. Create an Administrator account.

9. Restart the computer.

 

 

(copied from: here)

[Winapp2.ini]

Stealing ownership lets me access them, which is all I need for now. Just ordered a 1.5TB external to back everything up to, then im going to format this drive, unless I can just steal my old S-ID back and use my older account..

[login123]

Wild swing here by a not too tekkie, but is it a CACLS issue?

 

Here, script near the bottom

 

Or here

[fireryone]

Stealing ownership lets me access them, which is all I need for now. Just ordered a 1.5TB external to back everything up to, then im going to format this drive, unless I can just steal my old S-ID back and use my older account..

 

Yea that's what I was meaning I followed some steps once to recreate a user account to work again,

but I can't find it anywhere also I can't remember whither it was win98se or XP either.... here's to the best if you try it.

 

NOTE:

Below is not what I directly tested/used, as I cant find the guide I did used (or any guide for that matter),

so use below "knowledge" at your own expense of wrecking another user account or your windows install.

 

I know it involved loading the offline registry HIVE

http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm

 

(if you still have it) and modifying the new user account in the live HIVE to match the one in the old HIVE.

 

I believe your SID should be in (registry) HKEY_USERS\SID-is-here but which one...

So if you have access to that in the offline HIVE you may be able to figure out your old sid

and May be able use Microsoft's app to set a sid: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897418.aspx

 

You can get your current logged in sid via sysinternals cmd tool psgetsid.exe

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897417.aspx

 

So again no guarantees if above "could" work.

maybe you could play around with it in a VM I done have one up and running at the moment...

 

I suppose it's in the class of hacking (even though its your own account) so its hard to find details or an app automate it lol