Folder Access Denied?

[Guest]

The other night I bought a new case and mobo but when I went to install my
old hard drive (which up until that point had NEVER even given me a minor
hiccup) would not boot when the computer searched for the boot record. So I
grabbed another hard drive and loaded XP on it to hopefully at least transfer
my files off the old hard drive. I had access to everything on the old hard
drive except my documents and settings folder for just me. For some reason
it comes up as denied. Can anyone help?

 

[Haggis]

The other night I bought a new case and mobo but when I went to install my
old hard drive (which up until that point had NEVER even given me a minor
hiccup) would not boot when the computer searched for the boot record. So
I
grabbed another hard drive and loaded XP on it to hopefully at least
transfer
my files off the old hard drive. I had access to everything on the old
hard
drive except my documents and settings folder for just me. For some
reason
it comes up as denied. Can anyone help?

i don't have it handy , but look for "take ownership" of the drive

here is a little blurb

http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/acls2.shtml

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

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