Re: Cannot access files on my old hard drive
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:46:21 -0700
Ray wrote:
I recently bought a new computer. I have the old hard drive installed as a slave in the new computer so I can access my old files. The old drive has XP Pro installed with me as an administrator with a password. The new drive has XP Home installed. I can access any of the other user's files but my not my own. When I try to access my files I receive the following message; D:\documents and settings\ray\userdata is not accessible. Access denied. I get a silimar message for any of my files. I would like to transfer my contacts list, favorites, and email to the new Outlook and Internet Explorer but this too is denied. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder private is something completely different from encryption), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421
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