Motherboard Died Please Help

benwah · Post by **benwah** » April 13th, 2005, 7:13 pm

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?

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » April 15th, 2005, 12:13 am

By installing it in another system that you have XP on and as a slave. You have to have Admin rights on the computer, and you may have to change properties in the advanced tab, and take owernership.