You don't have to "switch" the drives, just take ownership of the files
on drive E or grant yourself necessary permissions to them. If you are
using XP Home just boot to Safe-Mode on the current installation and
take ownership of the files on disk E.
Without rebooting into Safe Mode you can grant yourself necessary
permissions to the files with the CACLS command. You must have
Administrative privileges to use the command and it must be used at the
Command Prompt.
This will grant full permissions on all the files and folders on drive
e: to all members of the Administrators group:
cacls e:\ /t /e /g Administrators:f
This will grant full permissions on all the files and folders on drive E
to John Doe:
cacls e:\ /t /e /g "John Doe":f
For help on the command do: cacls /?
John
tkbirdie wrote:
> The only way for me to take ownership of the files would be to switch the
> drives and run safe mode on the old drive. If the old drive shows files
> present, does this mean that Windows XP Home is still present? I do not want
> to switch the drives and then discover that it has become unbootable again
> (the drive became unbootable, hence the need to access the files).
>
> "John John" wrote:
>
>
>>You need to take ownership of the files.
>>
>>http://search.technet.microsoft.com/...take+ownership
>>
>>John
>>
>>tkbirdie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>As some of you may know, I could not access the files on my old laptop hard
>>>drive. Someone reputable managed to get my drive to spin, so I could recover
>>>my data. The replacement drive Dell sent me is currently situated in my Dell
>>>Latitude D505 (running Windows XP Home). I have managed to access some
>>>files, but there are others in a folder which I cannot. I keep receiving the
>>>following message: "E://***** is not accessible. Access is denied". It is E
>>>drive because it is attached via USB. I tried changing my BIOS boot menu to
>>>run the old drive, but it kept booting to the new one. Any suggestions on
>>>how I can access the files will be appreciated. I'm thinking, as a last
>>>resort, to take out the new drive, replace it with the old drive, boot to
>>>that, copy the files to USB, remove the old drive, replace it with the new
>>>drive. I am going to see the recovery technician later today, so any
>>>suggestions before that would be helpful. I know about accessing the folder
>>>via Safe Mode, changing the folder settings.
>>>Thanks
>>
>>
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