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How to recover Documents folder from Fragmented / Crashed WinXP

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cryptonomicon

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About 6 months ago I installed a firewire card and shortly after my entire Athlon XP system fried and the hard drive OS was destroyed somehow.

I can successfully bring the drive as a slave in my new system, and I can still access all the files on It except of course the protected folder ~C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\My Documents. When that folder is accessed though, I get the "ACCESS DENIED" According to this page, you just have to boot in safe mode and change some sort of admin permissions, but how do I do this by running the drive from a slave? I dont want to reinstall XP on that drive, it is somewhat faulty.

has anyone had this happen before?

notes:
the drive is a 2001 maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm drive that was relabeled under the CompUSA line.
 
did you just try right clicking that folder and going to properties. then clicking the security tab and make sure administrator or everyone has full rights to that folder? login as administrator when you try this of course.
 
I'd suggest using getdataback. You'll be able to see all the files on the faulty drive. You can then pick and choose which ones you want to copy to your healthy drive.
 
Originally posted by: shilala
I'd suggest using getdataback. You'll be able to see all the files on the faulty drive. You can then pick and choose which ones you want to copy to your healthy drive.
Click to expand...

you might have wanted to mention that that after the program takes 30 mins and finally gets you to your directory tree, it then doesnt let you copy any files without registering and paying. warez keys also have less than a 5 percent success rate on this prog.

thanks alot, this makes me furious.

edit: well the program has some use.. at least i can extract stuff from zips
 
You don't have to resort to warez or any 3rd party utility...this is simply a permission issue, turn off simple file sharing and take over ownership of the folder and contents to gain access.
 
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