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  • 24-07-2005 2:22pm
    #1
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭


    My pc recently had major errors on it and I had to do a recovery of the whole pc. When using the recovery discs there was no option to repair and it basically meant that I was wiping everything and starting from scratch. PC is two years old and I thought there was nothing that I couldnt get again and went ahead with the full recovery. Typically when it was all done I remembered a load of things that I need and cant replace. I was then downloading a new media player and just browsed for any old free one on the web. Got this one called media monkey and when I started to use it I noticed that it gives me access to music that had been on the pc prior to the recovery - there had been three user accounts set on the pc and I can see these when I browse for files using media monkey, as this is just a music player it will only allow access to music files. I assume this means a lot of my files etc that were on the pc are still there but how do I get to them?

    Would appreciate any help / thoughts.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Which version of windows guess it's XP / 2K

    Right click on the start button, explore all users - you should see the old accounts, and be able to bowse into them ( you may have to right click and change security if you get access denied )

    spacemonger is great for a quick overview of a drive.

    Moral = backups.


  • #3
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Thanks for that, got access to the two other accounts but not my own. It did come up access denied and I went into security etc but cant see how to change it.I assume I cant get into my own because its named the same as the new account?

    It is XP home.

    I had MS Office on the PC (was loaded 2 years ago when my job required working form home at times) - will this be gone now altogether. I have seen some files that were created on Word in the old user accounts but they are now showing as being Wordpad documents.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    See my sig for openoffice :)

    Security - go into advanced and you should be able to take ownership, and then change the permissions


  • #5
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Funny you should mention the office replacement, was just trying to remember the name of that - someone mentioned it to me a while back, thanks :)

    Will try again with security, cant seem to find an advanced option when I click on my user account.

    Thanks again.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=282094


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