Access Denied

[Guest]

OKay, I did something stupid. I pulled my old hard drive and re-installed my
operating system on a smaller hard drive, then plugged my old drive back in.
The intent was to make the smaller drive the C: drive and that it would
contain nothing but the operating system, while my old disk contained all of
my files, downloads, etc.

The problem is all the information stored under my original User folder is
inaccessable. I can't get to my old e-mail address book in Outlook, I can't
get to my old professional data, and I can't even remove three adware
programs that are hiding in that folder.

Is there any way I can remedy this, or am I just SOL?

 

[Guest]

Try removing the smaller hard drive and just run your computer like it was
before

 

[bman22]

You could boot off of the original haddrive and copy your unaccesible
file to an accesible folder, the boot off of the new drive and get to
your files.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Take Ownership, #9 on this page:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/adsecurity.htm

 

[Rock]

OKay, I did something stupid. I pulled my old hard drive and re-installed my
operating system on a smaller hard drive, then plugged my old drive back in.
The intent was to make the smaller drive the C: drive and that it would
contain nothing but the operating system, while my old disk contained all of
my files, downloads, etc.

The problem is all the information stored under my original User folder is
inaccessable. I can't get to my old e-mail address book in Outlook, I can't
get to my old professional data, and I can't even remove three adware
programs that are hiding in that folder.

Is there any way I can remedy this, or am I just SOL?

It's not a problem and you didn't do anything stupid. It's an issue of
permissions and file ownership. From Start | Help and Support search on
the term Ownership or see this link:

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