Trying to view folder I get... inaccessible. Access Denied.

[Ian R]

My friends laptop HDD was playing up and it was replaced under warranty.

He got the old drive back and has asked me to recover whatever files I can
from it.

Ive managed to get all of the data off for his wife and kids. But cannot
access his own "My Documents" folder.

It just says inaccessible. Access Denied.

I'm presuming he set a user password when logging in to Windows XP. He's a
way on hol at the mo so I cant reach him right away to ask. I'm not booting
up from the drive I have just attached it to a secondary IDE to view and
copy any relevant data files. Assuming I can get the password how/where
would I enter it in order to make these folders accessible?

Thanks for any info.

Ian

 

[Rod Speed]

My friends laptop HDD was playing up and it was replaced under
warranty.
He got the old drive back and has asked me to recover whatever files
I can from it.

Ive managed to get all of the data off for his wife and kids. But
cannot access his own "My Documents" folder.

It just says inaccessible. Access Denied.

I'm presuming he set a user password when logging in to Windows XP.

Or you just need to take ownership of that folder tree.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

He's a way on hol at the mo so I cant reach him right away to ask. I'm not
booting up from the drive I have just attached it to a secondary IDE to view
and copy any relevant data files. Assuming I can get the password how/where
would I enter it in order to make these folders accessible?

If it is password protected, you basically need to setup an account
on your system which has the same username and password.
That's done in the usual way in account management.

Try taking ownership first.

 

[Harry]

Ian R wrote...

My friends laptop HDD was playing up and it was replaced under warranty.

He got the old drive back and has asked me to recover whatever files I can
from it.

Ive managed to get all of the data off for his wife and kids. But cannot
access his own "My Documents" folder.

It just says inaccessible. Access Denied.

I'm presuming he set a user password when logging in to Windows XP. He's a
way on hol at the mo so I cant reach him right away to ask. I'm not booting
up from the drive I have just attached it to a secondary IDE to view and
copy any relevant data files. Assuming I can get the password how/where
would I enter it in order to make these folders accessible?

Here is a non invasive method.

Try to ghost the hard drive partition to a ghost image on another hdd.
Then use ghost explorer to see if you can explore the files in question
inside the ghost image.

See how far you can go.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Might be this:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...xp/all/proddocs/en-us/acl_take_ownership.mspx


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[Ian R]

My friends laptop HDD was playing up and it was replaced under warranty.

He got the old drive back and has asked me to recover whatever files I can
from it.

Ive managed to get all of the data off for his wife and kids. But cannot
access his own "My Documents" folder.

It just says inaccessible. Access Denied.

I'm presuming he set a user password when logging in to Windows XP. He's a
way on hol at the mo so I cant reach him right away to ask. I'm not
booting up from the drive I have just attached it to a secondary IDE to
view and copy any relevant data files. Assuming I can get the password
how/where would I enter it in order to make these folders accessible?

Thanks for any info.

Ian

Thanks Guys!

Youre all life savers.

My friend is extremely relieved to have all his files back intact!!

And his wife and kids too!!

Cheers

Ian I^)