grapebird715 wrote:
> I have windows xp pro. Three days ago my sons friend was on my pc with his
> moblie phone and disconected the phone just by pulling it out and not by the
> windows way. anyway to cut a long story short my computer would not work . I
> tried everything but nothing. in the end I bought a new motherboard? and
> installed eveything back as normal. This is where the problem is. I had to
> install it on to another hard drive I had in my computer. When I try to
> download all the docs from the old hard drive it is saying in the documents
> folder: (F:|Documents and Settings\Brian Morley is n ot accessible. Access is
> denied. it does this on all items I wish to move to the other hard drive. can
> someone help?
Replacing the motherboard and reinstalling the OS, all the drivers, and
all of your software applications sounds like an expensive, time
consuming, and unnecessary over-reaction for a problem caused by
disconnecting a mobile phone (or even dealing with a virus infection
caused by your son's friend). However, that's water under the bridge now.
You probably need to take ownership of your files:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us
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Lem -- MS-MVP
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