Access denied problem

[Menno Hershberger]

A fellow brought me his Dell laptop and his windows installation was
corrupted beyond repair. Using an adapter, I was able to clone his hard
drive to a regular hard drive. I put his drive back in the laptop and used
Dell's Restore feature to reinstall XP back to its original configuration.
I put the cloned drive in one of my computers so as to retrieve his data.
The cloned drive is drive E. I go to Documents and Settings on that drive,
click on Jason (his username) and his folders show up. However when I try
to open any of the folders (such as Jason's Documents), I get "access
denied".
What do I have to do to access his stuff?
It's a college kid and all his schoolwork is on there. Not backed up of
course.

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

NOTE: You must be logged on to the computer using an account that has
administrative privileges. If you are running Windows XP Home Edition, in order
to have access to the Security tab, you must first start in Safe Mode and log on
with an account that has Administrative rights.

"Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881


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[Menno Hershberger]

Thank you SO much! It worked like a charm.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

NOTE: You must be logged on to the computer using an account that has
administrative privileges. If you are running Windows XP Home Edition,
in order to have access to the Security tab, you must first start in
Safe Mode and log on with an account that has Administrative rights.

"Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

You're welcome.
Kaylene

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