Please help me

[Guest]

Here's the scenario...Thx beforehand for anyone who can offer me some help.

I have 1 hard drive.
I partitioned it to c: and d:
I installed windows xp professional on c:
I redirected the shortcut from "c:/.../my documents" to "d:/my documents" to
hold my important files
My computer had some problems
I formatted c: only (thinking it won't affect my d:/my documents)
I reinstalled windows xp professional on c:
I try to access d:/my documents
The error comes up saying "D:/my documents not accessible. Access is denied."
How can I access my important files again?


Once again, thank you very much for your time and effort in reviewing and
offering help to my problem.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

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

Take the ownership, and then give all the right to this folder (with all its
objects) to the owner, i.e. to yourself in this case.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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[Malke]

Here's the scenario...Thx beforehand for anyone who can offer me some
help.

I have 1 hard drive.
I partitioned it to c: and d:
I installed windows xp professional on c:
I redirected the shortcut from "c:/.../my documents" to "d:/my
documents" to hold my important files
My computer had some problems
I formatted c: only (thinking it won't affect my d:/my documents)
I reinstalled windows xp professional on c:
I try to access d:/my documents
The error comes up saying "D:/my documents not accessible. Access is
denied." How can I access my important files again?

Take ownership of the files:

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

Malke

 

[Les Herrman]

Here's the scenario...Thx beforehand for anyone who can offer me some help.

I have 1 hard drive.
I partitioned it to c: and d:
I installed windows xp professional on c:
I redirected the shortcut from "c:/.../my documents" to "d:/my documents" to
hold my important files
My computer had some problems
I formatted c: only (thinking it won't affect my d:/my documents)
I reinstalled windows xp professional on c:
I try to access d:/my documents
The error comes up saying "D:/my documents not accessible. Access is denied."
How can I access my important files again?


Once again, thank you very much for your time and effort in reviewing and
offering help to my problem.

You need to take ownership of the files and folder in order to access
them.

See the following MSKB article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us

 

[Guest]

Thank you so very much! I can just kiss you guys! The solution provided was
excellent!! And sorry about the multipost as I thought different people
looked at different posts and didn't expect someone was kind enough to be
checking all posts. Thank you so very much once again!!!

Here's the scenario...Thx beforehand for anyone who can offer me some
help.

I have 1 hard drive.
I partitioned it to c: and d:
I installed windows xp professional on c:
I redirected the shortcut from "c:/.../my documents" to "d:/my
documents" to hold my important files
My computer had some problems
I formatted c: only (thinking it won't affect my d:/my documents)
I reinstalled windows xp professional on c:
I try to access d:/my documents
The error comes up saying "D:/my documents not accessible. Access is
denied." How can I access my important files again?

Take ownership of the files:

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

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

 

[Malke]

Thank you so very much! I can just kiss you guys! The solution
provided was excellent!! And sorry about the multipost as I thought
different people looked at different posts and didn't expect someone
was kind enough to be checking all posts. Thank you so very much once
again!!!

You are so welcome. Thanks for taking the time to let us know all is
well.

Malke