hi,

i'm trying to repair my windows xp and it fails to reboot (bad sector or something).

i'm using my dell recovery disk and then select the "Repair" option which takes me to the command line application when i can browse my files and folders (like with cmd.exe).

however, when i'm trying to access the "Documents and settings" folder, it gives me access denied. is there any way to override it? is there any other way to access my documents and settings through other method?

I'm just trying to recover some files and copy them to another drive on my computer and then reinstall my winxp.

Thanks for the help