Please can anyone help my old laptop was damaged so I have got myself a new one. I have made the hard drive from the old laptop an external drive E. I can access the drive but can not open documents because they are protected by my password on that drive. How can I input the password to this drive so that it it knows its me that wants to see my stuff.

Was this the XP logon password or how did you password protect your files?

Do you still have a version of XP on the external drive or just files?

Originally Posted by jephree

Was this the XP logon password or how did you password protect your files?

Do you still have a version of XP on the external drive or just files?

Thanks for your interest; yes it was the XP logon that protects it and XP is on that drive.

I am a little confused as to what you are seeing & doing but if you can access the external drive XP:
press Ctrl/Alt/Delete where there is an option for changing passwords.

But I get the impression that you cannot access that XP?

If I am misunderstanding your situation please describe in more detail your actions & responses.

Sorry for the confusion