Accessing a private folder

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I had a HD which i partitioned into 2 drives one FAT32 and one NTFS. I installed XP Pro on the FAT32 drive and created an account. I kept it's documents on the NTFS drive and made them private.
I have since formatted the FAT32 drive which has removed XP.

The problem is I obviously now can't access the private folder on the NTFS drive since the account has been deleted.
Is there any way of gaining access to it?
 
Do you have XP Pro back on a computer with that NTFS drive? 98 can't read NTFS. Anyway if you have XP Pro back on and can't get access then this is what you do:

Originally posted by Phantasm66 here :
Take ownership of the folder. In security tab, there is an advanced option. Go in there and take ownership (you need an administrator account, or account in administrator's group). That should be all you need to do, maybe also change permissions.
 
ye i have xp pro back on the fat32 drive.

i right click on the folder and all i have are general, sharing and customise tabs no security one. where do i find it?
 
XP Pro should have a security tab for folders on an NTFS drive. Are you sure you are logged in as Administrator?
 
well im logged in as a user who is an administrator.

how do i log into the origininal administrator account?
 
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