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Hey guys,
My XP PRO has gotton corrupt and it wont boot into windows. I had a password in my account to log in. So I slaved the drive onto another system and the files that I want to access were on my desktop. It says "access denied" to these files. I want to know if there is any way to bypass this password protection, or are my files lost. If you could help me in any way I would appreciate it. Thanks.

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