Folder access is denied!

[Barney]

I have change my friends motherboard and cpu and also fitted a new 40Gb hard
drive.
I left his old hard drive in, as 'drive f' so that he could still access his
old docs, mp3's and photos etc.
The problem is that he put a tick next to 'Make this folder private' on his
old systems 'My documents' folder.
Now he cannot open the My documents folder on his old hard drive, the
message comes up saying 'Access is denied' and the tick box and 'Make this
folder private' is greyed out.
How can he regain access to his files?
Can anyone please help.




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[Galen]

In Barney <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I have change my friends motherboard and cpu and also fitted a new
40Gb hard drive.
I left his old hard drive in, as 'drive f' so that he could still
access his old docs, mp3's and photos etc.
The problem is that he put a tick next to 'Make this folder private'
on his old systems 'My documents' folder.
Now he cannot open the My documents folder on his old hard drive, the
message comes up saying 'Access is denied' and the tick box and 'Make
this folder private' is greyed out.
How can he regain access to his files?
Can anyone please help.

Log on as admin, take ownership.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Galen
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