2 hard drives HELP!!!!

[M Square]

I recently bought a new hard drive for my PC. I'm running XP SP2 on it. I made the new hard drive the master drive and my old one is now the slave drive. I can view both drives from MY COMPUTER.

 

My problem is when I go to access a folder on the old drive it is saying "access denied".

I am trying to get to document and settings and then the owner folder. I have some music files that I would like to transfer over to my new drive

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can regain access to this folder?

 

Thanks in advance

[londonles]

Please tell me how you configured each drive is the new one the master?

[M Square]

yes the new one is the master

[londonles]

Try sharing the slave drive and make sure you have permission to read & write to it

[mikedodson]

sorry I can't offer help, I'm looking for help on a similar problem.

 

Running XP home, I was trying to save data from a dying hard drive. I added new hard drive to the system and installed windows to it. The new drive was recognized as E:. Access to the old drive was still not possible. It was there but any attempt to read from it failed- a hardware error. After sending the bad drive out for data recovery, the system still recognized the now only HD as E:. I added another drive to the system, and it shows in the bios and device manager but not in my computer.

 

How can I get windows to show the new drive and is it possible to rename the primary drive as C:? Will that break all installed software that thinks its located on E:?