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I had a problem starting up windows xp home edition, it would get as far as
the screen for loading settings, then freeze. I put in a new hard drive and
reinstalled xp on it. I then tried to copy my documents from the old hard
drive to the new one, but it will not give me access to anything in my,
"Documents and settings" folder because it was not a shared folder, Keeps
saying, Access is denied.
Is there any way of retrieving the files from the old hard drive?, I have a
lot of important files that i dont want to loose.
Thanks for any assistance
Mav
 
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Gordon

Maverick1251 said:
I had a problem starting up windows xp home edition, it would get as far
as the screen for loading settings, then freeze. I put in a new hard drive
and reinstalled xp on it. I then tried to copy my documents from the old
hard drive to the new one, but it will not give me access to anything in
my, "Documents and settings" folder because it was not a shared folder,
Keeps saying, Access is denied.
Is there any way of retrieving the files from the old hard drive?, I have
a lot of important files that i dont want to loose.
Thanks for any assistance
Mav
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Go to help and Support and do a search on "Taking Ownership of Files and
Folders"
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

Follow the procedure outlined in this
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

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

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I had a problem starting up windows xp home edition, it would get as far as
| the screen for loading settings, then freeze. I put in a new hard drive and
| reinstalled xp on it. I then tried to copy my documents from the old hard
| drive to the new one, but it will not give me access to anything in my,
| "Documents and settings" folder because it was not a shared folder, Keeps
| saying, Access is denied.
| Is there any way of retrieving the files from the old hard drive?, I have a
| lot of important files that i dont want to loose.
| Thanks for any assistance
| Mav
 

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