Recovering Lost Data

[benjaminallen84]

A few days ago I got a lsass.exe error message. After days upon days spent trying to fix it, I have finally decided to just hose the installation and start anew (repair install didnt work cause I never made an image). My question is, how do I get my documents which, believe it or not, are in My Documents, from my winxp Pro drive? I have a seperate hdd with xp home on it and can still read the screwed up drive, which means that i can still access my files, except i cant seem to get around the "access is denied" error messages. Please help anyone.

[whitebeard21]

Google>forensic tools
some have free trials some are available on file sharing programs.

[jmatt]

See if these help .

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810881

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There are four services associated with lsass.exe and most users (especially home
users) do not need any of them running.

They are:
IPSEC services
Net Logon
NT LM Security Support Provider
Protected Storage

Type "services.msc" in run, and disable them.

I suggest you visit the following URL for complete info:
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

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Repairing XP .
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
http://support.gateway.com/support/p...50959411.shtml
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=315341
http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxppasr.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repairing_windows_xp.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Boot off of a clean windows XP cd , choose Install ( Not > To Repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console , press R ) at the first prompt .
It will then search for a previous copy of windows .
When it finds your copy , it will stop at the next prompt and ask if you want to do a repair . Hit R at this screen .
If it does'nt mention a repair > DO NOT continue .
It will then copy a lot of files and appear to be doing a reinstall ( But its not . All your programs and data are safe )
This will allow you to add accounts to the system that will be administrator accounts, it will also fix most problems in XP .
You will have to reactivate after the repair , but dont worry it will reactivate cleanly . This should fix your problems .