Geek squad will do it for 40ish bucks lol

yeah, i'm sure they will

every tool i find that does what i need it to do is pay2use

I would just buy a new computer and adapter so you can move the data off the hard drive.

What do you use the XP machine for?

it's just my baby first PC i put together

so i booted into safemode and was suddenly able to access the other administrator account that previously had a password and restored the user accounts lul

i've tried this multiple times before

laugh at me thank you for the replies!