I recently reinstalled WinXP Pro - unfortunately the 'My Documents' folder was on another NTFS drive with the result that I can no longer access it. (Access Denied) I cannot move/copy/delete this folder - as this is encrypted by default apparently, I've been told that the hash for this folder was stored with the previous installation and recovery/access is now impossible even though I have the same username/password - Someone please tell me this is wrong and there is some way of getting my documents back - I would even be prepared to use a brute force cracker for months to do this.
And before anybody lectures me about backing up - I did backup, but the 'My Docs' folder was on another drive which XP backup apparently takes no notice of - therefore all the user accounts were backed up but the 'Docs' folders were omitted.

Living in hope !!

And while we're on the subject of XP - why can't I import my messages from OE5? - Microsoft shoved it down our throats for long enough.....