Reinstalled XP on a New hard drive

[Guest]

My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not
backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of
being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation
went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.
However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get
the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new
drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents
were not backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP
with the hopes of being able to access my files from the orignal
hard drive. The installation went fine and I am now able to access
certain folders on my old hard drive. However, I cannot access
files under my user profile in My Documents. I get the error
message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on
the new drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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

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There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:42:00 -0700, Gena Z <Gena

My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not
backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of
being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation
went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.
However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get
the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new
drive.

Take ownership: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421