How to Access Data of a Password Protected User in Windows XP

Steps :

1. Boot the machine from Windows XP bootable CD.

2. At the setup screen, select R to repair using Recovery Console.

3. Now the console program will prompt you to select the Windows folder 
(eg. C:\WINDOWS) where the Windows is installed (you need to enter a 
number from the list of folders shown to you).

4. Type 'HELP' (without single quotes) and press enter for available 
commands. This is like a DOS program, but some features are not 
available

5. Change the current directory to the user's directory where you want to backup.

6. Type 'CD "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME"' (without single quotes) and press enter. 

7. Now the current directory will change to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME".

8. Now change the directory to Desktop by entering 'CD Desktop' (without
 single quotes) and press enter to go to the desktop folder.

9. Type 'DIR' (Without single quotes) and press enter, you will be liwted all the available files in Desktop.

10. Type 'COPY a.doc D:\BACKUP' (without quotes) and press enter, where 
a.doc is a file available in Desktop and the folder D:\BACKUP available 
to copy the files.

11. As in step 7,8,9,10 you can backup other folders like "My Documents", "My Music", etc.

12. Note that you cannot use wildcards for COPY, i.e. you cannot copy 
all the files in a folder at once. You must copy one file by one.

Any data which has not backed up will be permanently deleted when you re-format the hard drive, so make sure you back up any thing you want to keep.