Slave Drive help

[steelth]

My friend built a new comp. and used his old hardrive as a slave drive.Basically so he could keep his old pics and music on it but it had 2 diff. acct.'s on it his and his wifes.It will only let him get into his wifes folder and not his anyone know why?

 

[hughva]

How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

 

[raybay]

It is recoverable unless the other account was passworded.

 

[LookinAround]

It is recoverable unless the other account was passworded.

I believe taking ownership of a file/folder as hughva posted does just that, i.e. "take ownership" regardless of the original owner's Windows account userid or password.