After XP won't boot use as slave. BUT!

[Bret]

I had a hard drive failure which made it impossible to
boot my computer. I removed the hard drive and installed
it on another computer as a slave drive in order to access
the files on it. I had no problem and this worked great
until I needed something I had saved in "My Documents". I
am not able to access the "My Documents" for the slave
drive only the master. Anyway to get around this? All of
my photo's were in the My Documents folder.

This is because the My Documents on your second PC points to its my
documents (on its master drive). 'My Documents' is an alias for a folder on
the hard drive. On winxp, 'My Documents' will probably have pointed to
'Z:\Documents and Settings\[#Your User Name#]\My Documents\'
Where [#Your User Name#] is (obviously) your user name. Where Z is your hard
drive letter (usually C but probably D on your second computer). Don't
worry, the files are still on your slave drive, you just have lost the
shortcut ('My Documents') to the folder. They'll be there if you look where
I've said.

Hope this helps.

"Bret" > wrote in message
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> I had a hard drive failure which made it impossible to
> boot my computer. I removed the hard drive and installed
> it on another computer as a slave drive in order to access
> the files on it. I had no problem and this worked great
> until I needed something I had saved in "My Documents". I
> am not able to access the "My Documents" for the slave
> drive only the master. Anyway to get around this? All of
> my photo's were in the My Documents folder.
>