access denied to my documents

I recently had a crash and am attempting to recover
data. I have win xp home. I could not log on to my
computer at all, so I had to do a repair of the windows
installation. In the process, first, the my documents
folders displayed as empty, but when I did a search for a
file, I could find it, and it would open with the
specified program. Luckily, I had a saved copy of my
documents on another drive, so I copied them to the
folder on my c: drive. There still remains a folder of
my documents under my name which I cannot access.
Everytime I try to open a file, I get the message access
is denied. There are still a few files in that folder
which I need, but cannot open. I am the computer
administrator, but it still would not let me take over
the files. The files I need to open are listed as
another user, under my name and not as computer
adminstrator. Any ideas how I can open these files?

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 04:58:28 -0700, penny wrote:

> I recently had a crash and am attempting to recover
> data. I have win xp home. I could not log on to my
> computer at all, so I had to do a repair of the windows
> installation. In the process, first, the my documents
> folders displayed as empty, but when I did a search for a
> file, I could find it, and it would open with the
> specified program. Luckily, I had a saved copy of my
> documents on another drive, so I copied them to the
> folder on my c: drive. There still remains a folder of
> my documents under my name which I cannot access.
> Everytime I try to open a file, I get the message access
> is denied. There are still a few files in that folder
> which I need, but cannot open. I am the computer
> administrator, but it still would not let me take over
> the files. The files I need to open are listed as
> another user, under my name and not as computer
> adminstrator. Any ideas how I can open these files?

Take ownership of the files to regain access to them.
HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421
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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User