I am having a problem accessing My Documents because i am not logged in as that use, and thus do not have permission to access it. I am using Windows XP home. The reason I am not logged on as that user is because I am running another operating system which is Windows XP x64. I have to us x64 because there was a fatal error and i can not boot back into XP home. So knowing this, how can I access my files?

5/2/2006 6:59:38 PM

try going to the C:\Documents and Settings\ folder (assuming its in your C: drive)...you should probably have folders for each profile

5/2/2006 7:00:37 PM

^ yes i can go to Documents and Settings but i can't access the folder for the profile

5/2/2006 7:06:40 PM

create a user on x64 w/ same name and make him administrator and you're all set to browse there

5/2/2006 7:56:31 PM

^yeah, that does not work

5/2/2006 10:39:33 PM

use the administrator account to take ownership of the folder

[Edited on May 2, 2006 at 10:42 PM. Reason : if you don't know how google `"take ownership" windows']

5/2/2006 10:41:59 PM

^ thanks a lot. it worked

5/3/2006 10:31:16 AM

Alternate Solution:
-Google "NTFS for DOS" ... allows you to access files without needing an Administrator. Downside is the 8.3 format :/.

5/3/2006 12:05:19 PM

^someone I know did that and it fucked up all his files. (they all got permanently converted to 8.3)

5/3/2006 2:00:17 PM