Access Denied on C Drive XP Pro

[Guest]

I posted a this message earlier today under general and hardware about how I accidently upgraded my 2K to XP I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions and a 13G hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows access to all the partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow access to 2 partitions on the 60G. If I try to access the C drive or four other drives it gives me a message drive not accessable, access denied.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. Any suggestions on how to obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is seriously affecting my small business.

 

[WinGuy]

I posted a this message earlier today under general and hardware about how

I accidently upgraded my 2K to XP I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions
and a 13G hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows access to
all the partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow access
to 2 partitions on the 60G. If I try to access the C drive or four other
drives it gives me a message drive not accessable, access denied.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of

XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. Any
suggestions on how to obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the
solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is
seriously affecting my small business.

I don't know if this will work, but try booting an emergency disk created
from a Win ME (preferably) or Win 98SE (less preferable) system, making sure
it has FDISK on it. Be very carefull with that utility. What I'm thinking is
that you mihgt use FDISK to make a specific partition active (but do
absolutely nothing else using FDISK). Make notice of what partition is
active to begin with for a chosen drive, so that you can set things back the
way they were if it doesn't work for you. This doesn't mean XP is going to
see it (maybe it will, I don't know), it just means that once a partition is
active then you can boot to that partition if it has an operating system
installed on it (so maybe you could install one and move data between them
using a 2nd networked computer with a shared folder resource, floppy, or
CD-R/W).

 

[GateKeeper]

I think you can solve this problem by "taking ownership" of the drives.
Start by going to Control Panel and opening the Folder Options applet.
At the bottom of the list on the View tab, clear the checkbox for "Use
simple file sharing (recommended)." Click OK.

Now go to Help and Support and type in "take ownership," and follow the
instructions to "Take ownership of a file or folder." You will want to
"replace owner on subcontainers and objects."