Access Denied to My Documents folder.

[Guest]

We had a motherboard go out on a Windows XP Home edition PC. This PC had
multiple users each with their own login and password. We needed to retrieve
data from the hard drive so I removed it from the disabled PC and loaded into
one of the external USB drives and attached it to another Windows XP PC. It
came up fine, but when we attempted to open My Documents under any of the
accounts we got a message “Access Deniedâ€. I’m sure this is because each of
these accounts is “Username†and “Password†protected. We have the necessary
user names and passwords, but we are not given any opportunity to enter them.
Can anyone suggest a way we can get around this problem so we can access our
data?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Guest]

sorry to say, I have the same problem but no solution! Hope you get an answer.

 

[Rock]

We had a motherboard go out on a Windows XP Home edition PC. This PC had
multiple users each with their own login and password. We needed to
retrieve
data from the hard drive so I removed it from the disabled PC and loaded
into
one of the external USB drives and attached it to another Windows XP PC.
It
came up fine, but when we attempted to open My Documents under any of the
accounts we got a message “Access Deniedâ€. I’m sure this is because each
of
these accounts is “Username†and “Password†protected. We have the
necessary
user names and passwords, but we are not given any opportunity to enter
them.
Can anyone suggest a way we can get around this problem so we can access
our
data?

It's an issue of ownership and permissions. From Start | Help and Support
search for each of those to see the info or see these articles.

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

How to set, view, change, or remove file and folder permissions in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308418/en-us