retrieving files from old hard drive

[Tim Payne]

Dell condemned my old hard drive because it went into a
reboot loop and would not come out. I installed a new
drive and reloaded xp home. I set up the old drive as an
E: drive and recovered some files. However, everything
under my old user give an error of “Access denied, Make
sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the
file is not currently in use. Can anyone tell me how I may
be able to recover my old files?

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Tim;
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"Tim Payne" > wrote in message
...
> Dell condemned my old hard drive because it went into a
> reboot loop and would not come out. I installed a new
> drive and reloaded xp home. I set up the old drive as an
> E: drive and recovered some files. However, everything
> under my old user give an error of “Access denied, Make
> sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the
> file is not currently in use. Can anyone tell me how I may
> be able to recover my old files?

[Tim Payne]

I tried that Jupiter, but I wasn't in the Safe Mode. I'll
do that and give it another shot. Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>Tim;
>Take Ownership:
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>
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>Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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tup.asp
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>
>
>"Tim Payne" > wrote in message
...
>> Dell condemned my old hard drive because it went into a
>> reboot loop and would not come out. I installed a new
>> drive and reloaded xp home. I set up the old drive as an
>> E: drive and recovered some files. However, everything
>> under my old user give an error of “Access denied, Make
>> sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that
the
>> file is not currently in use. Can anyone tell me how I
may
>> be able to recover my old files?
>
>
>.
>