Okay I had a Dell 4400 and the motherboard went up so I was going to buy a replacement. The replacement is 200 bucks and everytime I called they were out of stock. I got fed up and decided to finally upgrade and get a really nice laptop which I did.

I have a problem I originally had 2 HD's an 80 gig and a 40 gig. The 80 gig was just storage so transfering those files will be no problem. The 40 gig had the OS on it and it also has a a good amount of files I want. I cant get to the HD cause I had put a passowrd on my windows XP log on. Does anyone here know how to bypass that so I can access the 40 gig through another computer?

As long as you're logged on as Administrator when you connect up the 40Gb drive as a slave drive, I wouldn't have thought the password in the old XP installation would make much difference. If it's still causing you problems, rename your laptop so that it's got the same computer name as your old PC.

You weren't using the Encrypted File System (EFS) were you?

thanks i got my problem solved

Great - thanks for letting us know

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