Reinstalled XP on a New hard drive

[Guest Gena Z]

My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not

backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of

being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation

went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.

However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get

the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a

conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new

drive.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: Reinstalled XP on a New hard drive

 

Gena Z wrote:

> My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents

> were not backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP

> with the hopes of being able to access my files from the orignal

> hard drive. The installation went fine and I am now able to access

> certain folders on my old hard drive. However, I cannot access

> files under my user profile in My Documents. I get the error

> message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a

> conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on

> the new drive.

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP

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

 

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.

There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP

 

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[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Reinstalled XP on a New hard drive

 

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:42:00 -0700, Gena Z <Gena

Z@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not

> backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of

> being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation

> went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.

> However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get

> the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a

> conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new

> drive.

 

 

 

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

 

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