Recovering files from a slave drive

[Mike]

A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall the O/S on
it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his drive. I know
reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't erase this, but I don't
want to take a chance. So, I put in his drive as a slave and was planning on
copying his files to my HD temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that
there are 3 profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to
copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't get to my
friends documents folder where all his music is stored. It keeps giving me
access denied to this. I tried everything that I can think of and so I'm
asking you. I believe he is an Admin on the computer and the others aren't
so that may explain why I can see the other's files. My computer is running
XP Pro SP2. The slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in
W2K3 I'm able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping
something similar can be done here.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Mike]

Oh, one more thing. I tried creating the same username and signing into my
computer. I asked if he had a password, he told me no. Could this work if
has a password and didn't remember?

 

[Malke]

A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall the O/S on
it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his drive. I know
reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't erase this, but I don't
want to take a chance. So, I put in his drive as a slave and was planning on
copying his files to my HD temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that
there are 3 profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to
copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't get to my
friends documents folder where all his music is stored. It keeps giving me
access denied to this. I tried everything that I can think of and so I'm
asking you. I believe he is an Admin on the computer and the others aren't
so that may explain why I can see the other's files. My computer is running
XP Pro SP2. The slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in
W2K3 I'm able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping
something similar can be done here.

Thanks for any help.

You just need to take ownership of the files.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

You don't need to create another user account with his name.


Malke

 

[Shenan Stanley]

A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall
the O/S on it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his
drive. I know reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't
erase this, but I don't want to take a chance. So, I put in his
drive as a slave and was planning on copying his files to my HD
temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that there are 3
profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to
copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't
get to my friends documents folder where all his music is stored.
It keeps giving me access denied to this. I tried everything that
I can think of and so I'm asking you. I believe he is an Admin on
the computer and the others aren't so that may explain why I can
see the other's files. My computer is running XP Pro SP2. The
slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in W2K3 I'm
able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping
something similar can be done here.

Should of Googled with what you 'knew'. *grin*

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP

 

[Mike]

Thanks, forgot about the simple file sharing. See the files now!

A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall the O/S on
it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his drive. I know
reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't erase this, but I don't
want to take a chance. So, I put in his drive as a slave and was planning on
copying his files to my HD temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that
there are 3 profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to
copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't get to my
friends documents folder where all his music is stored. It keeps giving me
access denied to this. I tried everything that I can think of and so I'm
asking you. I believe he is an Admin on the computer and the others aren't
so that may explain why I can see the other's files. My computer is running
XP Pro SP2. The slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in
W2K3 I'm able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping
something similar can be done here.

Thanks for any help.

You just need to take ownership of the files.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

You don't need to create another user account with his name.


Malke
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[Randy]

A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall the O/S on
it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his drive. I know
reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't erase this, but I don't
want to take a chance. So, I put in his drive as a slave and was planning on
copying his files to my HD temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that
there are 3 profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to
copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't get to my
friends documents folder where all his music is stored. It keeps giving me
access denied to this. I tried everything that I can think of and so I'm
asking you. I believe he is an Admin on the computer and the others aren't
so that may explain why I can see the other's files. My computer is running
XP Pro SP2. The slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in
W2K3 I'm able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping
something similar can be done here.

Thanks for any help.

I am having a similar problem. My Computer crashed (Using XP Home). I
removed the Hard Drive and put it in an older computer I have running Windows
2000. I can see the files but can't move or open (Access Denied). How can I
get these files onto a HD using 2000?