Private Folder - Access Denied

[Antony Wiatr]

I have recently installed Win XP Pro and had a problem
which resulted in boot failure from my hard disk. I have
now got hold of another hard disk and stuck XP on that in
order to be able to read my old hard disk. This seemed to
work until I tried to access a 'private' folder
named 'Antony' in which the 'my documents' folder is
located. I get an 'access denied' message.

So I changed the option from 'simple file sharing' and
changed the owner of the 'Antony' folder to my new
username. Now I can now access the Antony dir, which I
couldn't previously, and can now see the subdirs but can
still not access the subfolders in this. I get the
message 'access denied' again and cannot change the owner
as before.

Please can someone help as I urgently need to get access
to my files?!?!

Cheers,

Antony Wiatr

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

When you take ownership of the primary folder, make sure you check the box for Replace owner on all subcontainers and objects.