Recover data from hard disk

[Guest dirtydavid]

My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and now want

to recover the data from it.

 

I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports on my

new machine.

 

There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into and have

recovered everything.

 

The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I try I get

the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my documents is not

accessible Access is denied.

 

I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new machine -

still denied

 

Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.

 

Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

 

David

[Guest Daave]

Re: Recover data from hard disk

 

dirtydavid wrote:

> My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and

> now want to recover the data from it.

>

> I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports

> on my new machine.

>

> There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into

> and have recovered everything.

>

> The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I

> try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my

> documents is not accessible Access is denied.

>

> I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new

> machine - still denied

>

> Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.

>

> Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

 

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

[Guest dirtydavid]

Re: Recover data from hard disk

 

Thanks Daave, perfect result.

 

 

 

"Daave" wrote:

> dirtydavid wrote:

> > My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and

> > now want to recover the data from it.

> >

> > I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports

> > on my new machine.

> >

> > There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into

> > and have recovered everything.

> >

> > The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I

> > try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my

> > documents is not accessible Access is denied.

> >

> > I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new

> > machine - still denied

> >

> > Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.

> >

> > Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

>

> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

>

>

>

[Guest Daave]

Re: Recover data from hard disk

 

YW. Glad it worked.

 

dirtydavid wrote:

> Thanks Daave, perfect result.

>

>

>

> "Daave" wrote:

>

>> dirtydavid wrote:

>>> My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and

>>> now want to recover the data from it.

>>>

>>> I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports

>>> on my new machine.

>>>

>>> There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into

>>> and have recovered everything.

>>>

>>> The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I

>>> try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my

>>> documents is not accessible Access is denied.

>>>

>>> I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new

>>> machine - still denied

>>>

>>> Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.

>>>

>>> Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

>>

>> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:

>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421