Help with Two OS's

[Guest]

I have two OS's, Windows XP Home and Pro... the Home Edition is corrupted
pretty bad so I installed Pro in the same partition in C:\WINDOOWS as to not
erase anything from the other os... There's some files that i need to get
from the other OS, the Home Edition, everytime I boot it up it gets to the
Windows loading screen with the little light bar rolling on the bottom then
the sceen goes black... I want to do one of two things.... access the old
files from the new OS or fix the other OS so I can get pass the Loading
screen and not hit a black screen... I do have both CD's for the OS's.
Whenever I try to access the files in the Documents of the Home Edition OS it
says access denied... Just some more info... if anyone knows how to get pass
that that couuld help...

Thanks for all your help and time!

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have two OS's, Windows XP Home and Pro... the Home Edition is corrupted
pretty bad so I installed Pro in the same partition in C:\WINDOOWS as to
not
erase anything from the other os... There's some files that i need to get
from the other OS, the Home Edition, everytime I boot it up it gets to the
Windows loading screen with the little light bar rolling on the bottom
then
the sceen goes black... I want to do one of two things.... access the old
files from the new OS or fix the other OS so I can get pass the Loading
screen and not hit a black screen... I do have both CD's for the OS's.
Whenever I try to access the files in the Documents of the Home Edition OS
it
says access denied... Just some more info... if anyone knows how to get
pass
that that couuld help...

Thanks for all your help and time!

It's called Take Ownership, and applies to drives formatted as NTFS.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

A fast method of recovering data is to simply remove the drive and attach it
to the other system, and back it up from there. The Acronis TrueImage demo
will create a usable image that you can mount and take files off at your
leisure. You will need to Take Ownership there, too. The TI demo will
give you two weeks to be sure you've got all the data. The non-trial
version isn't expensive and is very worthwhile.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

Patrick thanks for the help, I was trying to figure this out for awhile...
again thanks!