My 160gb hard drive crashed so I booted up on another hard drive in order to retrieve some files. Unfortunately, the crashed drive was formatted in NTFS and the boot drive I used was FAT32 so it couldn't see the other drive. I purchased another 160gb drive and formatted it in NTFS and installed XP Home on it figuring I would then be able to see my files. I made the new drive the master and the old one the slave. Unfortunately when I booted up I got a message during bootup that the old drive was locked and it gave me 5 chances to put in the password (which of course there is none) and then it locks the system. Ive never seen this message before and it comes up in white letters on a red background as it searches for the drives.
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Locked out of the hard drive
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