swapped drives: cannot access old "My Documents" folder

[Guest]

My pc would not boot up in any mode so I reinstalled Windows XP. Prior to
doing that, I connected the hard drive as the slave drive and installed a
fresh drive as the master drive hoping that I would be able to recover My
Documents that way. However, now when I try to access the My Documents folder
on the original drive (now drive D instead of Drive C with Windows explorer,
I get the following message: "D:\Documents and Setting\MyName\My Documents is
not accessible. Access is Denied." Is there any way I can recover those
files? I am using Windows XP home edition, and "simple file sharing" is not
a listed option on the advanced settings under folder options/view. I also
get the "access denied" message when trying to change the file sharing
attributes on the old "my documents" file.

 

[Guest]

C:\>calcs c:\TARGET /t /g everyone:f

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Please see this link on "taking ownership" of a folder:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hello,

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

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
http://www.mvps.org


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