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Originally Posted by diehardbiker
One suggestion that I have tried and work well is that get 2nd hard drive, then set the old hard drive as slave, and have 2nd hard drive as master then install windows in there then there are good chance you may be able to retrieve some of files, but no guarantees. Today hard drives aren't as expensive as it was then!  |
Your idea for a second drive is a good one, but if he boots into win2k, he might not be able to access the data , NTFS permissions are funny that way. What he should do is boot from a live Linux CD, mount the hard drive, and then copy everything in the "documents and settings" folder to either a CD, another partition on the hard drive, a second hard drive or an external drive of some kind (flash drives are in gigs of capacity these days)
Then he should try to re-set the adminstrator password. there are ways to do this with Linux.
Recover Administrator's password
Thats the best howto I could find after searching for a few minutes, but there are more options if some one is willing to dig.