Re: Emails and documents

From: Tumbleweed (thisaccountneverread_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:36:43 +0100

"Rodney" <adslnerd@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:2399e01c45f0b$ad1351e0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all
>
> About 5 days ago, my original hard disk was sometimes not
> booting XP properly - it would pause during the loading
> bar sequence (left to right), but when it did boot
> successfully I could access everything including my
> documents, etc.
>
> I have since bought a new hard disk and re-installed
> Windows XP from scratch. This new hard disk is a Samsung
> 80GB SATA drive.
>
> When I try to import my emails from outlook express on my
> old drive, it says access denied. I tried access
> my "Rodney" folder from Documents and settings on the old
> hard disk, but again it says access denied.
>
> Also, none of my old DOC files appear on the old hard
> disk, yet it has not been formatted. They are still
> there, but even searching will not show them.
>
> How can I retrieve all my documents from my old hard disk
> and access/import my emails from outlook express on the
> old drive to the new drive?
>
> I hope someone can help me.

Might be a 'take ownership' issue try looking that up via google.

How do you know your doc files are there if you cant see them or find them?
do you mean all files that end with '.doc' have gone but all others are
there, or what? 

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