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This might help
I also had probelms with lsass.exe in my Satellite laptop, but I managed to get at my files and at least burn them to back up. I'm not sure if this will work everywhere, but this is what I did:
I installed Win2000 right over XP (on the same partition), which left all my files because 2000 uses an NT directory as default install, XP uses Windows. anyway, 2000 up and ran quite well actually, but wouldn't allow me to access any of my XP protected files. If you log in as Administrator in 2000, and you can find your XP files, you can force the ownership over to you, giving you full access to them, and since 2000 is running fairly stable, you can burn backups, or transfer over netwrk or whatever. reply if you need to know how to take back file/folder owneship in 2000. After salvaging data, I did have to wipe my drive and re-install XP(the laptop will only run 100% with XP) Hope this helps save some data that Microsoft doesn't seen to care too much about
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