Access Denied

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The motherboard went out on my old computer. Before I was aware of this, I thought I had a windows problem and tried to reinstall XP over itself withoug wiping out the hard drive. I could never make it through a complete install. I bought a new computer and am trying to use the hard drive out of my old computer as a second hard drive in the new computer as I had no backups of data and do not want to lose everything on the drive. However, everything is in My Documents and when I try to access My Documents on the second drive, I can not get in as it says Access Denied. I also tried using it as the master drive, finish the windows upgrade on it, but that does not work either. Is there a way I can get permission to access the My Documents on the second hard drive?
 
This article describes how to take ownership of a file or folder
to which you have been denied access:

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| The motherboard went out on my old computer. Before I was aware of this, I thought I had a windows problem
and tried to reinstall XP over itself withoug wiping out the hard drive. I could never make it through a
complete install. I bought a new computer and am trying to use the hard drive out of my old computer as a
second hard drive in the new computer as I had no backups of data and do not want to lose everything on the
drive. However, everything is in My Documents and when I try to access My Documents on the second drive, I can
not get in as it says Access Denied. I also tried using it as the master drive, finish the windows upgrade on
it, but that does not work either. Is there a way I can get permission to access the My Documents on the
second hard drive?
 
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