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Terry
December 18th 03, 06:13 PM
Recently I built a new computer using new and old parts
from my old computer, one being the hard drive. I
currently use the old hard drive a my scondary hard drive
having purchased a faster, larger one for this computer.
IN my old computer the hard drive was set up with a
password and such.

TOday, when I try and access my old data on the old hard
drive it will not allow me to do say say that I'm not
authorized. I've tried just about everything to include
reseting the folder permissions, trying to copy the fold
to my new hard drive, trying to get to the data with in a
DOS window, setting the same password and log on.

Have any of you had this same problem? I really would
like to recover the data. Suggestions?

--terry

Doug Knox MS-MVP
December 18th 03, 06:14 PM
See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421
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"Terry" > wrote in message
...
> Recently I built a new computer using new and old parts
> from my old computer, one being the hard drive. I
> currently use the old hard drive a my scondary hard drive
> having purchased a faster, larger one for this computer.
> IN my old computer the hard drive was set up with a
> password and such.
>
> TOday, when I try and access my old data on the old hard
> drive it will not allow me to do say say that I'm not
> authorized. I've tried just about everything to include
> reseting the folder permissions, trying to copy the fold
> to my new hard drive, trying to get to the data with in a
> DOS window, setting the same password and log on.
>
> Have any of you had this same problem? I really would
> like to recover the data. Suggestions?
>
> --terry

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