Backup and recovery Issue

[Guest]

After using an External Hard Drive to backup my computer and I had My
Documents sharing set to Make This Folder Private.

Due to a format and Reinstall of XP Home I attempt to access the My
Documents that I had put on the External Hard Drive and I get a message that
it is unaccessable and Access Is Denied.

I have not changed the Login name and It is still unacessable. Is there a
way to recover it or backdoor around it? I have Admin clearance already and
the knowledge base is leading me nowhere

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

After using an External Hard Drive to backup my computer and I had My
Documents sharing set to Make This Folder Private.

Due to a format and Reinstall of XP Home I attempt to access the My
Documents that I had put on the External Hard Drive and I get a message that
it is unaccessable and Access Is Denied.

I have not changed the Login name and It is still unacessable. Is there a
way to recover it or backdoor around it? I have Admin clearance already and
the knowledge base is leading me nowhere

You may need to seize ownership of the folders on this disk.
Check Start / Help for a detailed explanation on "ownership".

 

[Guest]

Since you know about this, could you tell me why the properties folder says
that there are 0 files and 0 folders within but when my AV scans that area it
is detecting all my files that are within its that normal....

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

AV probably runs under the System account which has full
access to these folders.