Recent content by seth6string

As far as I can remember (haven't booted that system in years) the files I want shouldn't be encrypted or passworded themselves. The user account was, though, and I remember the pass. It's my own music I recorded years ago, I just want to rescue them while I still can, then trash the drive.

Here's my situation: I have the drive from my old desktop running WinXP, with a password. It's in an external enclosure, with a USB connection. I'm going to borrow a laptop running Win7 and connect my drive... am I likely to encounter any difficulty accessing my files? Will XP boot from the...