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My guess is your Dell disk is BIOS locked. Yes, you would need a retail XP CD though you might want to first contact Dell to see what they say. You should be able to perform this function unless there are some other issues. In other words, you can to a repair install but you cannot do it with the Dell disk as it was tied to other hardware and it thinks this is a different computer. Now, if a retail disk doesn't work, you could install XP to a different partition and then copy the data on your old setup to the new one. You will likely be met with an access denied message in which case you will need to take ownership of the files as follows: Note, file ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. How you resolve it depends upon which version of XP you are running. XP-Home Unfortunately, XP Home using NTFS is essentially hard wired for Simple File Sharing at system level. However, you can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot, and start hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the options is Safe Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's password. This is not your administrator account, rather it is the machine's administrator account for which users are asked to create a password during setup. If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press enter. Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to the bottom of the list, if it shows Enable Simple File Sharing deselect it and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change, move on to the next step. Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection: Replace owner on subcontainers and _object_s, select it as well. Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when you log back on as that user. XP-Pro If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder Options, go to the View tab and be sure Use Simple File Sharing is not selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok. If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user, right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click Advanced, go to the Owner tab, select the user you wish to have access, at the bottom of the box, you should see a check box for Replace owner on subcontainers and _object_s, place a check in the box and click apply and ok. The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again, right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be sure the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the user name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply and ok. That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even in a limited account.
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