Critical Problem

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Amit Kumar

I had a windows Xp professional installed on my pc.. and
set certain permission for drives and files in them..
After a while my Operating system crashed... here comes
the problem..
and then I installed a fresh copy of WInXP professional
again on a different hard disk... I have the drives of
the crashed operating system but i am not able to access
the drives at all... i know that all the files are there
but how do i recover my files in those drives.. Please do
send me a remidy at (e-mail address removed).. And when i
try to see the properties of the drives there is nothing
on security..only the disk details are shown..

I need help at the earliest please...

Thank you
Amit
 
Amit said:
I had a windows Xp professional installed on my pc.. and
set certain permission for drives and files in them..
After a while my Operating system crashed... here comes
the problem..
and then I installed a fresh copy of WInXP professional
again on a different hard disk... I have the drives of
the crashed operating system but i am not able to access
the drives at all... i know that all the files are there
but how do i recover my files in those drives.. Please do
send me a remidy at (e-mail address removed).. And when i
try to see the properties of the drives there is nothing
on security..only the disk details are shown..

I need help at the earliest please...
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Ok first of all to see the security tab, turn off "simple file sharing". You
can do this by opening up an explorer/my computer window and then going to
tools / folder options / view and scroll down the list until you find the
option we want at the bottom. Remove the tick to turn it off.

Now you hopefully have a security tab available you need to use it to Take
Ownership of drives, folders and files as needed.

If the problem applies to a whole drive, open my computer again, right click
the drive in question, then select properties and open up your newly
revitalised security tab.

In the security tab, click "Advanced". Then select the "Owners" tab.

In the owners tab, highlight your username under the "Change Owner Too"
window, place a tick in the "Replace Owner on Subcontainers and Objects"
box, and click OK. Hopefully that will turn the trick for a whole drive. For
specific files and folders the process is more or less the same except
obviously you start by right clicking the target file or folder, not its
parent drive.


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