I was repairing a pc for some one that has win xp installed. It was corrupted and not booting past the Xp splash screen. At that point it gives a blue screen etc…safe mode, last know config does not work, they all result in the same blue screen. So i am at the point where i am going to wipe the drive and reinstall XP as repairs to the OS is also not working.
Before I proceeded with this I tried to back up the data on the harddrive by slaving it in another pc. this worked fine for 2 of the profiles on the drive found in Documents and Settings, but one user account was protected and I can’t copy or open it to get the files on the desktop folder and My Documents.
I am trying to find out if there is a way around this protection to save the files before wiping the drive.
