Recovery Help

[Queasy]

My main hard drive crashed to the point where I can not boot from it. I installed a new hard drive and am trying to pull documents off the crashed drive. Yes, I know about the benefits of backup. The documents I'm trying to recover are only a couple of days old and are work related. Anyways, I have XP Pro installed and when I now try to access the "My Documents" folder off of the old drive, I get a "Access is Denied" error. Is there any way to circumvent this?

Thanks,

Queasy

 

[MulLa]

What OS did you have installed on the crashed drive? 2k/XP? Since I get the impression that you simply took the old drive and attached it to another install of XP. Security ID (SID) values of your account would have been different to your old drive therefore it might explain why you can't access the drive. Also you had NTFS on the old drive and you have changed default permission?

Anywa, if the above were true then you might try the following.

Are you able to right click on the folder and check its properties -> security? If you are admin on the XP box you are able to take ownership of the folder and you would be able to grant yourself access. To take ownership, check out the "advanced" button in the security tab.

 

[obenton]

If it's an NTFS drive, the problem may be in the folder security settings. Try adding Everyone permission for full access.

 

[DanceMonkey]

Obenton has the right answer.

The users that were defined on the old OS do not exist on the new OS. Therefore, if your (new OS) account does not have explicit read permissions on the folder (and it won't because it didn't exist in the old OS), you'll get access denied.

However, you can add "Everyone" or even your user account to the permissions on the folder to read those files.