File doesn't open

[Guest]

I have got C:, D:, E: and F:. I decided to reformat my HDD. Now Drive C: and
D: is one Hard Drive of 8GB, partitioned 4GB each. Drive E: and F: is of 40GB
total, partioned 20GB each. I decided to reformat my C: and D: and remove the
partition in between them Clean Install Win XP Pro on the 8GB HDD. The File
System is NTFS on all the Drives. My DATA is safe on E: and F:. Now when I
did FDISK to remove partition, I was not able to. So i did a DEBUG. I was
able to remove partition and install Win XP Pro successfully.

Now the problem is I am not able to open my SAVED DATA which is on the E:
and F: drives.

It gives a error message "Access Denied .... " or "Cannot open .... ".

Please H-E-L-P !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please see if the following article helps:

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

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I have got C:, D:, E: and F:. I decided to reformat my HDD. Now Drive C: and
D: is one Hard Drive of 8GB, partitioned 4GB each. Drive E: and F: is of 40GB
total, partioned 20GB each. I decided to reformat my C: and D: and remove the
partition in between them Clean Install Win XP Pro on the 8GB HDD. The File
System is NTFS on all the Drives. My DATA is safe on E: and F:. Now when I
did FDISK to remove partition, I was not able to. So i did a DEBUG. I was
able to remove partition and install Win XP Pro successfully.

Now the problem is I am not able to open my SAVED DATA which is on the E:
and F: drives.

It gives a error message "Access Denied .... " or "Cannot open .... ".

The problem is the account the files were created under no longer
exists. Use the steps in the following article to take ownership of the
files.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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