Windows XP restricting my old documents

[DigitalAir]

An accident in partition reworking cost me my boot partition recently, and the installation of Windows XP that I store my documents on was rendered unbootable. I created a new partition and installed another instance of XP on it (I'm planning on using the other one for Lycoris...or RH 9, haven't decided yet) and I got it running. The problem is, all my documents are "restricted", and I can't get all the vital work I have on the unbootable partition that is clearly there (the old drive 'c'), but inaccessable to me. Is there any freeware that will unlock it...or maybe some system file I can edit with resource hacker that would allow me to get my documents back? Thanks. I appreciate it.

 

[NogginBoink]

You're logged in as a different user.

Take ownership of the files and give yourself read permissions.

 

[DigitalAir]

How can I take ownership when I can't log into that account anymore...because I can't even boot into the OS, it's corrupted. I've tried creating an account with the name of that user...no results either. Safe mode...nothing. Maybe some boot disk...Thanks anyway

edit: I just realized what you meant by taking ownership...but that still won't work because it's not part of this installation...it's not on another partition...

 

[DigitalAir]

Nobody knows? Darn...I was hoping someone here out of the 100000+ members would...thanks anyway.

 

[spyordie007]

read his post again, he gave you the correct answer.

As the admin under the current install you can take ownership of any files that are on volumes mounted to that machine, once you have taken ownership of them than you can set the permissions to anything you want (i.e. you=full controll).

-Spy

 

[DigitalAir]

Thanks. I misunderstood...I had to take ownership of the drive first. Then it all worked out. Thank you very much. I appreciate the help.