Can't get into private folder after XP Reinstallation

[Guest]

Hi Guys,

My hard drive is partitioned and I have just reinstalled XP in C-Drive. My
problem is that I had moved my 'My Documents' folder into the secondary
partition and made it a private folder, after reinstalling windows I can't
get into the folder. I get the 'access denied' message.

What can I do? Is there a way to unlock it? I have over 80GB worth of date
stored there .

Thanks

Presyden

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi Guys,

My hard drive is partitioned and I have just reinstalled XP in C-Drive. My
problem is that I had moved my 'My Documents' folder into the secondary
partition and made it a private folder, after reinstalling windows I can't
get into the folder. I get the 'access denied' message.

What can I do? Is there a way to unlock it? I have over 80GB worth of date
stored there .

Thanks

Presyden

If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder
private is something completely different from encryption), you may be
facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried
taking ownership of the old folders?

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421


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[Guest]

I will try that now, thanks

If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder
private is something completely different from encryption), you may be
facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried
taking ownership of the old folders?

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

 

[Guest]

I've followed the insructions and the folder has been unlocked and can be
viewed by the Administrator, I also gave my username the same permission
ticks as the administrator but for some reason I cannot view the files that I
had stored in the folder.
They are there and I can click on them but for exmaple the picutes wont open
and are not previewed. Any ideas?