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?  Take Ownership of Files and Folders...Thank You !!

  I didn't get a chance to try it until LAST night. It worked perfectly  Welcome Aboard ! !