Recovering data from hard drive

[Dan O.]

My power supply failed on my primary computer (Windows XP)
and took the motherboard with it. I removed the hard
drive from that computer and installed it as a slave in a
different computer running XP. The drive is functional
but I cannot access my main data directory (home
directory). I have the same login and password on the
second computetr as I had on the first. Does anyone have
any suggestions how I can access my old home directory?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Dan;
Take Ownership, #7 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/adsecurity.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jupiter. It worked after I changed the ownership
of the parent directory.

Dan

 

[resistor]

I found that if you install the drive and boot from a live CD of SLAX or
Gentoo LINUX you can recover the data from both partitions to an NTFS or
FAT32 disk internely or by USB. The SALX LINUX Live CD files can be
downloaded from here.

http://slax.linux-live.org/

When I got it, Gentoo was distibuted through Bittorrent.
You can also get the files from their list of mirrors.

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml

I keep one of the SLAX disks in each of my offices. It solves a lot of data
recovery problems with partitioned disks be they NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16.