File Access

[Ed Panzeter]

Have you tried taking control of the folder and editing
the permissions? To do this, navigate to the folder,
right click on it and choose properties. Click the
security tab and then the advanced button. Choose the
owner tab and choose yourself in the box. Check
the "Replace" box and hit ok. This may take several
minutes but after that see if you can change the
permissions on the folder.

XP was made so that if someone stole a hard drive and
slaved it they could not access protected data, even if
the computer name, profile name and password are the same.

>-----Original Message-----
>After a power failure XP will not reboot using any of
the
>reboot options including Safe Mode. I have a OEM
restore
>CD so Recovery Console is not available.
>
>My solution was to purchase a new hard drive and restore
>my OEM XP onto the new drive making the old drive the
>slave drive. This worked fine, except that when I try
to
>go into the old (slave drive) adminsistrator directory
to
>recover files, access is denied.
>
>I have set up the new version with the same administator
>name and password as the old but nothing that I try will
>allow access to the the old directory. Everything that
I
>read says that as administrator, I should have complete
>access to all files, which I do, with the exception of
>the files that I had under the administrator name in the
>Documents and Settings directory.
>
>Any ideas on how to get access?
>
>
>.
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