From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 18:07:22 EST
> > It's very easy to access an NTFS drive without
> > logging in. You simply have
> > to boot from a Win2K or XP CD-ROM and select the
> > Recovery Console. Or pull
> > the drive and plug it into a second machine as the
> > second drive. Either way,
> > you'll be able to get to everything on the drive
> > except for encrypted folders.
> Not really, the Recovery utilities never work! It
> hasn't worked on NT system crashes in the past either.
> In this case it wanted me to logon as Administrator
> but then said the password was incorrect.
> I did pull the drive and try it on my other system.
> All the files looked like they were there OK, even the
> one that it said was missing! I didn't really have
> anything to save though.
I'm not sure what went wrong here, but I've used the Recovery Console from a
CD boot several times; it's worked OK for me. Anyway, before worrying about
it further, it sounds like you may have gone back to WinMe, is that right?
If you are still interested in getting Win2K working, you might want to try
Rob's suggestion and do a clean install instead of an upgrade. That could be
the source of some of the problems.
For myself, having spent several years running Win95/98/Me, I can't imagine
ever going back to them. Windows 2000, and now Windows XP, work so much
better for me that there's no comparison.
-Mike
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