retrieving files from old hard drive

[Tim Payne]

Dell condemned my old hard drive because it went into a
reboot loop and would not come out. I installed a new
drive and reloaded xp home. I set up the old drive as an
E: drive and recovered some files. However, everything
under my old user give an error of “Access denied, Make
sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the
file is not currently in use. Can anyone tell me how I may
be able to recover my old files?

 

[Kyle Norman]

Tim, you are not alone! I have the exact same problem (I
think) ... is there anyone out there who can tell us how
to get around the protection windows places on the "My
Documents" folder if the XP installation dies and you
make the original drive a slave. I can get into every
folder except for My Documents. I'd just reinstall XP
over the old version (as I did many times w/ 98), but it
keeps warning me that it may delete all my files if I do
that ... someone please help!

 

[Jason Evans]

Same problem here. There must be a way to get access to
these files, but I haven't found it. Someone please tell
us how.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Tim;
Take Ownership:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

 

[Tim Payne]

I tried that Jupiter, but I wasn't in the Safe Mode. I'll
do that and give it another shot. Thanks