Hi I have to re install windows in my brothers pc ..A Dell Optiplex GX270 ,Pentium 4 processor running XP Pro SP3.The problem I am having is, I’m trying to recover his data. But when I put the drive in the enclosure and hook it up to another pc I can’t find any of his files. I can only find them when the drive is in his machine. I tried the enclosure on two different .pcs with the same result . when I open his drive they are not listed just the administrator folders The All users and user folders are listed .However all users is empty and when I try to open Users it say I cant have access to it and I know his admin. profile has no password. Could his flies be corrupt? or drive sectors? Is there any way I can tell ? in the event logger I see a lot of Msi Installer warnings but I can’t access any properties of anything . his problems started when he turned on auto updates and all kinds or stuff got down loaded… sp2 ,Dr Watson , hot fixes….. I called Microsoft and verified it is a legal copy of windows and tried with them to install recovery console but didn’t work. Any one have any suggestions?
