restoring private folder backup to different PC

[Ed White]

I'm using Windows XP. Recently one of my RAID 0 drives on my desktop PC went
out, and fortunately I had just backed it up. While I was waiting for new
drives for the desktop, I tried to restore some files in the backed up My
Documents folder to my laptop. The problem is that the My Documents folder
on the desktop is private--I believe it got that way because I use a password
to log onto Windows. Therefore, when I tried to access the backed up files,
I get a message "...My Documents is not accessible. Access is denied."
(Inicidentally, I'm using Norton Save & Restore, but I don't think the backup
program matters).

This is troubling. Now that I have new drives in the desktop, I have
successfully restored everything from the backup and I can access the My
Documents folder since it's on the same computer. But if my computer got
smoked (and the motherboard went out), and I had to restore My Documents to a
different PC, I'd be locked out of the files.

Since I have the password that was used to lock the folder, is there a way
from a different PC to get accessed to the locked folder?
--
Ed
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Ed

[WenJun Zhang[msft]]

Hi,

This newsgroup is about Microsoft Application Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/applicationcenter/

For this question, you can post to Windows XP newsgroup which is a more
appropriate place to get assistance and suggestions.

Happy new year!

Sincerely,

WenJun Zhang

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