First explorer crashes after i run a registry cleaner, then after restoring the registry, explorer crashes again. New task->explorer.exe leads to an endless loop of starting and crashing explorer. So i did an HP "Non-Destructive" system restore, using the recovery disks. This is when i log on and find that i've gone from sp3 to sp1 and i no longer have access to my documents, i went into safe mode and attempted to give myself access but that failed. My idea was to boot into ubuntu and just copy paste my My Documents folder into the new user folder made when i logged in after restore, but i used wubi so ubuntu doesnt have its own partitions and the MBR was "restored", plus i lost the live cd i used to have. i do have an ubuntu iso, so i could run out and buy a cd to make a new one, but i dont think i would be able to access the host drive without being on the installed Ubuntu. Anyone got any ideas? I would realy like to avoid reinstalling windows, i dont have backup and i would also have to reinstall ubuntu.

yeah, i've since reinstalled ubuntu with a windows installer and just moved the files into the my documents folder created when i logged in,but i wasnt able to do the same for my sisters username, i can get into all the folders now but all of her files give me an error, "cannot intialize" or "access denied." i would rather not have to add her name to the permissions list for every one of her files if that can be avoided, any ideas?

yes, but it wont just let me do it for the containing folders, i have to do that with each individual file.