"Access Denied." to local HDD directory.

[SethCain]

Ok, first of all, I had a problem with my last HDD with the boot volume so I went out and bought a new HDD to replace it. I went and set it up then added my original drive as a slave, I was able to access every folder on it, except for the folder that pertained to my account.

The first install I had on my original drive was XP Prof. and I had the account passworded.

The second time, I did the same, created the same account with the same password and all, but I'm not able to get into the directory, even on the admin acct.

The only helpful-sounding advice I got was to change the rights on the drive....but as of right now, I can't find any way of doing it, a friend of mine said to right click on the folder and go to the Security tab....well, I have no security tab, so that's not help.

If anyone could make a suggestion on how to do it, please do, I'm really stressing out trying to fix it

Thanks

 

[h0vic]

Did you tried logging as "administrator" (NOT account with administrator privileges)?

If you just need to get some files from the folder, try using DOS. Since you see a security tab, I'm assuming you didn't format the drive to NTFS.

 

[SethCain]

No, I see no security tab, and it is NTFS. The new hd is FAT32, but the old is still NTFS.


And Yes, I used the Administrator account, no luck there.


And a cd into the dir from dos just gave me the message "Access Denied"

 

[Jake91]

First go to some sort of file browsing window (my computer works)
then go to tools> folder options > view tab > scroll to the bottom, uncheck simple file sharing
then click ok, go to the misbehaving file or folder, go to properties, security tab, take ownership of the file and/or set security permissions so you can access it.

Jake

 

[SethCain]

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much