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Hi all,

Glad I came upon your boards. I have a problem on my hands here, hopefully you can help me out.

My computer crashed a couple of days ago. When I tried booting up, I got an error message telling me that a file was corrupt or missing from the \windows\system32\config\system\ directory.

I reintstalled XP Pro on a separate hard drive I had laying around and when I tried to access my old documents from the crashed hard drive I got an error message telling me I didn't have permission to access the files. I protected the files a while ago to keep my roommates from screwing anything up, but now I can't get my files back...I'm wondering if there is any way to gain access from my new Windows install.

Any thoughts? Thanks for any help!