I was doing an up grade on xp pro with xp pro (dont
ask). It started to do the upgrade until the system tried
to login and i got an error say something about
registration is invalid. I Figured it was just a bad
install so i did it again and got the same result. So
last try to fix things it installs and windows comes up
but now it made its own directory instead
of "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose" (this was is in
Winnt in NTFS format)it is now in a new
directory "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose123".(there is
also a new directory from one of the bad installs now
called "WINDOWS" along with Winnt folder) Now i see the
old file Moose But i cannot access it i get error is not
accessible access denied. I know the files are there
volume of drive on partition 2 is 20GBs instead of 35GBs
and some of the files like example in my music folder
show they are they and MB size are correct but i cannot
access them. Oh and i did try to do a restore but those
backup files are gone.
Please someone help i have some really important pictures
and documents i need to recover. Im not sure what other
info i need to supply here that would be useful so just
ask. Thank you for your time and support.
Moose

Hi Moose,

Follow the instructions in this MSKB article for taking ownership of a file
or folder and see if that helps to resolve the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421


Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Moose" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1b3a201c42058$8d5ba1a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I was doing an up grade on xp pro with xp pro (dont
> ask). It started to do the upgrade until the system tried
> to login and i got an error say something about
> registration is invalid. I Figured it was just a bad
> install so i did it again and got the same result. So
> last try to fix things it installs and windows comes up
> but now it made its own directory instead
> of "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose" (this was is in
> Winnt in NTFS format)it is now in a new
> directory "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose123".(there is
> also a new directory from one of the bad installs now
> called "WINDOWS" along with Winnt folder) Now i see the
> old file Moose But i cannot access it i get error is not
> accessible access denied. I know the files are there
> volume of drive on partition 2 is 20GBs instead of 35GBs
> and some of the files like example in my music folder
> show they are they and MB size are correct but i cannot
> access them. Oh and i did try to do a restore but those
> backup files are gone.
> Please someone help i have some really important pictures
> and documents i need to recover. Im not sure what other
> info i need to supply here that would be useful so just
> ask. Thank you for your time and support.
> Moose

Thank you so much Patti that fixed my problems. I have
complete access to those files again thank you.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Moose,
>
>Follow the instructions in this MSKB article for taking
ownership of a file
>or folder and see if that helps to resolve the problem:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421
>
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Patti MacLeod
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
>"Moose" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:1b3a201c42058$8d5ba1a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I was doing an up grade on xp pro with xp pro (dont
>> ask). It started to do the upgrade until the system
tried
>> to login and i got an error say something about
>> registration is invalid. I Figured it was just a bad
>> install so i did it again and got the same result. So
>> last try to fix things it installs and windows comes up
>> but now it made its own directory instead
>> of "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose" (this was is in
>> Winnt in NTFS format)it is now in a new
>> directory "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose123".(there
is
>> also a new directory from one of the bad installs now
>> called "WINDOWS" along with Winnt folder) Now i see the
>> old file Moose But i cannot access it i get error is
not
>> accessible access denied. I know the files are there
>> volume of drive on partition 2 is 20GBs instead of
35GBs
>> and some of the files like example in my music folder
>> show they are they and MB size are correct but i cannot
>> access them. Oh and i did try to do a restore but those
>> backup files are gone.
>> Please someone help i have some really important
pictures
>> and documents i need to recover. Im not sure what other
>> info i need to supply here that would be useful so just
>> ask. Thank you for your time and support.
>> Moose
>
>
>.
>

You're very welcome, Moose :-)


Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Moose" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1c3c601c421dc$38879d70$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thank you so much Patti that fixed my problems. I have
> complete access to those files again thank you.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Moose,
> >
> >Follow the instructions in this MSKB article for taking
> ownership of a file
> >or folder and see if that helps to resolve the problem:
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >--
> >Patti MacLeod
> >Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
> >
> >"Moose" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> >news:1b3a201c42058$8d5ba1a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I was doing an up grade on xp pro with xp pro (dont
> >> ask). It started to do the upgrade until the system
> tried
> >> to login and i got an error say something about
> >> registration is invalid. I Figured it was just a bad
> >> install so i did it again and got the same result. So
> >> last try to fix things it installs and windows comes up
> >> but now it made its own directory instead
> >> of "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose" (this was is in
> >> Winnt in NTFS format)it is now in a new
> >> directory "D:\Documents and Settings\Moose123".(there
> is
> >> also a new directory from one of the bad installs now
> >> called "WINDOWS" along with Winnt folder) Now i see the
> >> old file Moose But i cannot access it i get error is
> not
> >> accessible access denied. I know the files are there
> >> volume of drive on partition 2 is 20GBs instead of
> 35GBs
> >> and some of the files like example in my music folder
> >> show they are they and MB size are correct but i cannot
> >> access them. Oh and i did try to do a restore but those
> >> backup files are gone.
> >> Please someone help i have some really important
> pictures
> >> and documents i need to recover. Im not sure what other
> >> info i need to supply here that would be useful so just
> >> ask. Thank you for your time and support.
> >> Moose
> >
> >
> >.
> >