Kevin
December 14th 03, 03:12 PM
Have you tried to take ownership of the folders? Do a
right mouse click on the folder and click on properties
then click on the security tab. From here click on the
advanced button and then choose the owner tab. You should
be able to replace the owner on the folders needed.
>-----Original Message-----
>To give a short history, I had a 60GB hard drive with
>Windows XP running smoothly and correctly. I was
>cleaning off old ZIP disks and 3-1/4" floppies and I
>stuck one floppy in that I had forgotten what was on it.
>It turned out to be a Master Boot Disk for Windows 2000
>Advanced Server from a class I had taken a few years ago.
>
>Well, it automatically started overwriting my OS files
>and corrupted my system. Not thinking clearly, I tried
>rebooting my computer and realized that I had screwed up
>by not copying my important personal files over to my
>30GB slave drive.
>
>I tried using the Windows Recovery Console to no success,
>I tried doing a Repair from the Windows XP CD to no
>avail, I tried the fixboot command with no success, I
>tried rebuilding the bootcfg with no luck, I was about to
>try a fixmbr command, but I was afraid I'd lose any
>access to the drive. A couple of other notes, during the
>Repair, the process completed on two occasions, but
>Windows only booted up to a blank screen with no ability
>to do anything. Now it can't even make it through a
>Repair session... it stops the process and the hard drive
>starts clicking. So it appears that I have no ability to
>repair or recover that drive.
>
>So I went out and purchased an 80GB drive to copy all the
>information over from the 60GB drive. I can access the
>drive with no problems when I set it up as a slave drive
>on the IDE cable with the 80GB as the Master. This is all
>fine except when I try to access my personal folder on
>the old drive. I am set up as an Administrator on both
>my old drive and new drive, but I had placed specific
>folder security to My Documents on the 60GB. So now, even
>though it is a slave drive on my new configuration, and
>even though I am using the same administrator name and
>password, I can't access the files or copy them to the
>new drive.
>
>Does anyone have ANY idea of how I can get into these
>folders if I have the correct password (which I do) and
>user name?
>.
>
right mouse click on the folder and click on properties
then click on the security tab. From here click on the
advanced button and then choose the owner tab. You should
be able to replace the owner on the folders needed.
>-----Original Message-----
>To give a short history, I had a 60GB hard drive with
>Windows XP running smoothly and correctly. I was
>cleaning off old ZIP disks and 3-1/4" floppies and I
>stuck one floppy in that I had forgotten what was on it.
>It turned out to be a Master Boot Disk for Windows 2000
>Advanced Server from a class I had taken a few years ago.
>
>Well, it automatically started overwriting my OS files
>and corrupted my system. Not thinking clearly, I tried
>rebooting my computer and realized that I had screwed up
>by not copying my important personal files over to my
>30GB slave drive.
>
>I tried using the Windows Recovery Console to no success,
>I tried doing a Repair from the Windows XP CD to no
>avail, I tried the fixboot command with no success, I
>tried rebuilding the bootcfg with no luck, I was about to
>try a fixmbr command, but I was afraid I'd lose any
>access to the drive. A couple of other notes, during the
>Repair, the process completed on two occasions, but
>Windows only booted up to a blank screen with no ability
>to do anything. Now it can't even make it through a
>Repair session... it stops the process and the hard drive
>starts clicking. So it appears that I have no ability to
>repair or recover that drive.
>
>So I went out and purchased an 80GB drive to copy all the
>information over from the 60GB drive. I can access the
>drive with no problems when I set it up as a slave drive
>on the IDE cable with the 80GB as the Master. This is all
>fine except when I try to access my personal folder on
>the old drive. I am set up as an Administrator on both
>my old drive and new drive, but I had placed specific
>folder security to My Documents on the 60GB. So now, even
>though it is a slave drive on my new configuration, and
>even though I am using the same administrator name and
>password, I can't access the files or copy them to the
>new drive.
>
>Does anyone have ANY idea of how I can get into these
>folders if I have the correct password (which I do) and
>user name?
>.
>