external Harddrive access

[Eric]

I reformatted desktop computer harddrive & reinstalled it with XP PRO. Before I did that, I saved/backup all of my important data to my external Maxtor 3000LE harddrive.

Here is the problem, before reformatting I set the security properties for the backup folder (on Maxtor) so only I had permission to view & not the kids...I did weekly backups to this folder & did not want the kids to delete anything by mistake.

So now...I can not access my folder that I had all that data in ( even though I am the Administrator & part of the Admin group). It says access denied.

What can I do to access this? It has all my family digital photo's, mp3's & financial records in there!

I called Maxtor, they said that since I can access all the other data on HD, that's its not a hardware problem but a software/OS problem. They suggested checking MS for help.

Does anyone know what to do? Thanks for viewing.

[Gordon]

"Eric" > wrote in message
...
> I reformatted desktop computer harddrive & reinstalled it with XP PRO.
Before I did that, I saved/backup all of my important data to my external
Maxtor 3000LE harddrive.
>
> Here is the problem, before reformatting I set the security properties for
the backup folder (on Maxtor) so only I had permission to view & not the
kids...I did weekly backups to this folder & did not want the kids to delete
anything by mistake.
>
> So now...I can not access my folder that I had all that data in ( even
though I am the Administrator & part of the Admin group). It says access
denied.
>
> What can I do to access this? It has all my family digital photo's, mp3's
& financial records in there!
>
> I called Maxtor, they said that since I can access all the other data on
HD, that's its not a hardware problem but a software/OS problem. They
suggested checking MS for help.
>
> Does anyone know what to do? Thanks for viewing.
>

You need to Take Ownership if the files and folders. Look it up in Help and
Support.

[ERic]

Problem corrected. Thanks very, very much to everyone who replied.

SORRY for so many duplicate entries (first time I've posted on BBS, throught I had to post on each group...not just the main one).

THANKS AGAIN to everyone for their time spent on my problem!!! Eric.