Guys...i REALLY need help...hard drive related

ManBearPig

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Well, my hard drive started making ticking noises and restarting/not responding, and all the sudden it went out. every time i tried to reboot it gave me a bsod. its happened before and ive had to RMA it. the BSOD says unmountable boot drive.

my brother in law suggested i go buy another HDD (need one because i start at school in a couple days) and see if i can get the stuff i need off the old one. i had about 10-15 gigs of pictures that i really need, because those i can never get back (im an idiot for not backing up, i know). however, my pictures folder was located in my folder on my admin account, and i had it to not sharing, so whenever i try to access that folder on the old HDD i get:

F:\documents and settings\heen is not accessible.

access is denied.

is there ANY way i can get this stuff back?

thanks so much
 

mchammer

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Yea you can get them back, someone on here will know. I think you have to take ownership of them somehow.
 

ManBearPig

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Originally posted by: mchammer
Yea you can get them back, someone on here will know. I think you have to take ownership of them somehow.

i hope so.

i also had a ton of music on my desktop on the old HDD, and now its not there. any ideas? did the desktop stuff get erased?
 

screw3d

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Originally posted by: mchammer
How do you know it's not there, you said you can't access F:\documents and settings\heen. Desktop would be under that as F:\documents and settings\heen\desktop.

I found this artice in the MSKB, I think it is what you need http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

The instructions on the link above should work. I did exactly that when I encountered the same problem.
 

ManBearPig

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hey guys, i really appreciate your help. you seriously saved me alot of time, and otherwise id never be able to get anything back. now i have all my stuff. thanks so much