Re: Lost Data During Parallel Install?

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From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:58:43 -0700

Aaron wrote:

> I was with tech support for a few hours yesterday trying to resolve the
> following:
>
> My machine would not boot and kept telling me that "No Operating System
> could be found". We ran a few utilities from the prompt and long story
> short, we ended up installing a second xp os on the same partition in a
> different folder. I was told that by doing this, I would be able to access
> all of my documents, audio, video etc, and that then I would need to retrieve
> all that and then do a reformat and clean install. It's definately going to
> be a pain in the ass, but if that's what it takes, that's fine. However, now
> that I've booted using a different XP OS, it acts like a new computer
> obviously, and the problem is that I can't find any of my old data. I had
> strictly administrator priveleges on my user account on my old setup, and I'm
> wondering if that is causing me not to be able to find anything from my old
> setup. Please help. Does anyone have any suggestion?
>
> Thanks much,

Can you see the data, but just not access it? If so then you need to
take ownership of those files and folders.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

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