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Need help pulling data off of a hard drive

Sep 6, 2016 10:42AM PDT

My boss had a Dell computer (Windows XP) at his office that finally died. He set this computer up with 2 user profiles, one for his assistant(Profile A) and one for him(Profile B). Since the computer will no longer boot up, I've pulled the hard drive and put it in an enclosure to get all the documents and files moved to a new computer, but I can only see the "Profile A" files. Is there any way to access all the other information on this drive without going through the boot/login process? Thanks!

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Both should be accessable.
Sep 6, 2016 10:57AM PDT
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you should have access
Sep 6, 2016 1:33PM PDT