Accessing My Documents from a Different Windows Installation

[blargnoobman]

I've got a stick of a problem that's gotten to me for the past day or so. I am attempting to access the My Documents folder of a specific user on one installation of windows XP on drive D: through the windows XP installation on drive C:.

Basically, I offered my services to a friend to get his documents from his computer. His windows system is corrupted in such a way that his hard drive will not boot into windows, not even through safe mode (blue screen fun), nor after a chkdsk run in Recovery Console. I can set up his hard drive as a slave on my main computer, and I want to know if through my installation of windows I can remove his password so I can access his My Documents folder (whenever I try to click on his My Documents folder I get an Access Denied).

My objective is to access his documents, copy them onto my hard drive, and wipe his hard drive clean. Can anyone give me a simple way to either remove his password so I can access his folder or be able to 'log in' remotely from my computer into his windows? Or any other way just to get into his documents?

[F A B Scott]

Originally Posted by blargnoobman

...Can anyone give me a simple way to either remove his password so I can access his folder or be able to 'log in' remotely from my computer into his windows? Or any other way just to get into his documents?

Why not use his password? As you are obviously doing it for him surely he would tell you it.

[blargnoobman]

I... cannot... log... into... windows! his hard drive does NOT boot into windows, the ONLY way for the hard drive to work is to place it as a slave and boot windows from a separate hard drive, on a separate version of windows.

[F A B Scott]

Whilst it's connected as slave take ownership as described here.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...308421&sd=tech