Lost my user files in My Documents!

[TomC]

My Computer crashed today and found out the on my hard
drive, I lost my (userfiles)on my hard drive
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents
I took my hard drive out of the computer and with a USB
drive, I can find my C:\ drive, but when I click on my
name, it says I can not acsess. I am trying to recover
lost files that I put in my documents! Any Idea when in
the hard drive it put the files?
Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My Computer crashed today and found out the on my hard
drive, I lost my (userfiles)on my hard drive
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents
I took my hard drive out of the computer and with a USB
drive, I can find my C:\ drive, but when I click on my
name, it says I can not acsess. I am trying to recover
lost files that I put in my documents! Any Idea when in
the hard drive it put the files?
Thanks

You need to take ownership of the files/folders before you can access them.

Search your built in help and support for "ownership".

 

[Kelly]

Hi Tom,

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q308/4/18.asp