A young friend of mine Natasha has had loads of problems with her PC,
culminating with the total loss of her SYS32 Folder.This machine is used by 4
different people in the house. The pc took over 6 minutes to start up, I
removed loads of junk from it but that did not improve matters, so we decided
to fit another Hard drive as Master and make hers a slave.

That worked ok. On what is now her E drive she has 3 folders which contain
all her pics,books and other bits and pieces, the folder is just called
"Natasha", 2 other folders are Natasha1 and Natasha2.

The Natasha folder will not allow her access, it just says "ACCESS DENIED"
each time she clicks on it, the other 2 open normally, also the properties
for each folder are the same.

I have to say that she did occasionally have this problem when this drive
was the master.

Is there a way to get access so she can transfer the info somewhere else?

Thanks in advance

John

You need to take ownership of the files!
Access is Denied Error Message:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

Also read this MS KB article about how to take ownership of files.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

JS

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7545950D-67FC-49ED-A270-(E-Mail Removed)...
>A young friend of mine Natasha has had loads of problems with her PC,
> culminating with the total loss of her SYS32 Folder.This machine is used
> by 4
> different people in the house. The pc took over 6 minutes to start up, I
> removed loads of junk from it but that did not improve matters, so we
> decided
> to fit another Hard drive as Master and make hers a slave.
>
> That worked ok. On what is now her E drive she has 3 folders which contain
> all her pics,books and other bits and pieces, the folder is just called
> "Natasha", 2 other folders are Natasha1 and Natasha2.
>
> The Natasha folder will not allow her access, it just says "ACCESS DENIED"
> each time she clicks on it, the other 2 open normally, also the properties
> for each folder are the same.
>
> I have to say that she did occasionally have this problem when this drive
> was the master.
>
> Is there a way to get access so she can transfer the info somewhere else?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> John

Hi

You could try here:

"How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308421

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"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7545950D-67FC-49ED-A270-(E-Mail Removed)...
>A young friend of mine Natasha has had loads of problems with her PC,
> culminating with the total loss of her SYS32 Folder.This machine is used
> by 4
> different people in the house. The pc took over 6 minutes to start up, I
> removed loads of junk from it but that did not improve matters, so we
> decided
> to fit another Hard drive as Master and make hers a slave.
>
> That worked ok. On what is now her E drive she has 3 folders which contain
> all her pics,books and other bits and pieces, the folder is just called
> "Natasha", 2 other folders are Natasha1 and Natasha2.
>
> The Natasha folder will not allow her access, it just says "ACCESS DENIED"
> each time she clicks on it, the other 2 open normally, also the properties
> for each folder are the same.
>
> I have to say that she did occasionally have this problem when this drive
> was the master.
>
> Is there a way to get access so she can transfer the info somewhere else?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> John