follow Only A Hobo's advice...its for all practical purposes the easiest solution to your problems considering you say you can't access the files via your other account (which as a note needs to have admin status to access all files)...any other solutions I can think of are fairly comlicated (relatively speaking) in comparison....its easy for me, as I use a dual boot machine and can access any files I want at any time needed, remotely repair damages OS's, and retrieve any and all data important to me (take that as a hint to one of the more 'complicated' solutions)