umount_boot_volume

[Mr. TD]

for no apparent reason my old hard drive wanted to give me a blue scree
error befor windows gets a chance to boot up.............system restore
safe mode...........none of it works. the major problem i have is 90% o
my filesa re stored in a folder on the desktop. i got a new HDD an
threw a copy of XP on it, connected the drive with the boot error aswe
and tried to access the desktop folder only to be denye
access..........

can anyone help ???

 

[Galen]

In Mr. TD had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

for no apparent reason my old hard drive wanted to give me a blue
screen error befor windows gets a chance to boot
up.............system restore, safe mode...........none of it works.
the major problem i have is 90% of my filesa re stored in a folder on
the desktop. i got a new HDD and threw a copy of XP on it, connected
the drive with the boot error aswel and tried to access the desktop
folder only to be denyed access..........

can anyone help ????

Help? Oh probably. Take ownership of it. That's probably what the problem
is.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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