I had some difficulty with booting a friends hard drive that crashed.
After obtaining the instillation cd from hp. xp pro 64bit. tried fixmbr and fixboot. computer starts with windows with the bar scrolling horizontally then goes black with the mouse pointer in the middle of the screen, then locks. and does the same in safe mode. and again for last working copy.
I ordered a 2nd drive and created xp, and it runs great. now C is the new drive and the drive that has data on is D that does not boot.
The data drive now has 4 accounts that have passwords on them. though without being to boot on that drive, I can not transfer their data to the new drive.
Is there a procedure that I can use in safe mode admin account in order to transfer their data that will bypass their password ir be able to type in their password which is now preventing me to copy their personal info to their new drive?
I did not try to re-install the os onto the data disk, due to the chance of loosing their data but I can use the recovery console if any other ideas.
Thanks
Dan
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