I need help!

[Guest]

Recently, my windowsXP professional decides not to load so after trying to
save it, i gave up and installed XP professional on another hard drive,
making the unbooting hard drive a slave to this windowsXP hard drive. Now I
wish to access My Documents on the original hard drive, however, when I try
to access the folder, access is denied. I don't know how to get past this to
get to my old files which I wish to save. Any input would be appreciated.

Thank You

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please see if the following helps:

"How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

 

[Malke]

Recently, my windowsXP professional decides not to load so after
trying to save it, i gave up and installed XP professional on another
hard drive, making the unbooting hard drive a slave to this windowsXP
hard drive. Now I wish to access My Documents on the original hard
drive, however, when I try to access the folder, access is denied. I
don't know how to get past this to get to my old files which I wish to
save. Any input would be appreciated.

Thank You

You need to take ownership of the files.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

Malke

 

[Rock]

Recently, my windowsXP professional decides not to load so after trying to
save it, i gave up and installed XP professional on another hard drive,
making the unbooting hard drive a slave to this windowsXP hard drive. Now I
wish to access My Documents on the original hard drive, however, when I try
to access the folder, access is denied. I don't know how to get past this to
get to my old files which I wish to save. Any input would be appreciated.

Thank You

Another option is to go to Start | Help and Support and type permissions
in the search box.