You could use a brute force hack...might take a week but, if you have important files on it, it may be worth it... Or you could get a new harddrive, set the currten drive to salve, and install Win xp on the new Drive, then access the old drive Via the new os and srag and drop the wanted files... But if nothings on there of serious value, just format..it will be the most simple operation.. =Drew