Access Denied to Drives XP Pro

Please bear with me I have posted here a couple of times. I am hoping with this addtional information that I didn't write yesterday will be helpful enough to get a resolution

Recently I had a couple of viruses on my desktop using 2K in my registry that I removed. After the removal my desktop would boot, load settings, save settings, and then reboot in a constant loop. Because it did a constant loop I could not access the compu
ter. My solution I thought, was to install 2K again which I did for a total of three times which did not solve the problem.

Out of frustration I decided to install XP which I did, and when the install was complete it gave me a message that a problem in the registry had been corrected. Now I had 4 2K's and XP on the C:drive. I was then able to boot up the original 2K install, ho
wever when I would choose XP it would load but I would get a access denied message when trying to access the C:.

Yesterday I removed all the 2K's from the boot.ini with the exception of the orignal 2K and XP. Everything was fine with the exception that I still could not access the C: and other drives when I booted up in XP. I decided that I would re-install XP and se
e if the access problem could be corrected. During the install I accidently choose to upgrade my 2K to XP instead of doing an install so I could dual boot. Here is my problem, since I can't go back to 2K, I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions and a 13G
hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows acces to all the partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow access to 2 partitions on the 60G. The other five show as local disks but I can't access them. Under 2K all the drives
had unique labels, now the drives I can't access are labeled local disk.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. In disk management it shows the C: drive in the volume list with the type as basic, online, and healthy. The
C: and two other partitions are primary on the 60G hard drive and the other four partitions are on extended partition as logical drives. I have truly tried to do everything I know to do but it isn't enough. Any suggestions on how to obtain access? Re-insta
lling doesn't appear to be the solution because it will let me re-install as many times as I want if I have the drive space. Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is seriously affecting my small business. l am a graphic designer wi
th a lot of files that I need access to. Right now reformatting the hard drive is not a option for me.

Sincerely,
Cecelia

Right click on the c drive, select properties.
On the security tab click on advanced
On the owner tab select administrators and check subcontainers and objects,
click ok
Now back on the security tab add Administrators, grant them full control and
click advanced
Check the box Replace permissions on all child objects and click OK

You should now have full access to the drive.

Repeat on other drives.

Regards
Mark Dormer

"Cecelia" wrote in message
...
Please bear with me I have posted here a couple of times. I am hoping with
this addtional information that I didn't write yesterday will be helpful
enough to get a resolution

Recently I had a couple of viruses on my desktop using 2K in my registry
that I removed. After the removal my desktop would boot, load settings,
save settings, and then reboot in a constant loop. Because it did a
constant loop I could not access the computer. My solution I thought, was
to install 2K again which I did for a total of three times which did not
solve the problem.

Out of frustration I decided to install XP which I did, and when the
install was complete it gave me a message that a problem in the registry
had been corrected. Now I had 4 2K's and XP on the C:drive. I was then
able to boot up the original 2K install, however when I would choose XP it
would load but I would get a access denied message when trying to access
the C:.

Yesterday I removed all the 2K's from the boot.ini with the exception of
the orignal 2K and XP. Everything was fine with the exception that I still
could not access the C: and other drives when I booted up in XP. I decided
that I would re-install XP and see if the access problem could be
corrected. During the install I accidently choose to upgrade my 2K to XP
instead of doing an install so I could dual boot. Here is my problem,
since I can't go back to 2K, I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions and
a 13G hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows acces to
all the partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow
access to 2 partitions on the 60G. The other five show as local disks but
I can't access them. Under 2K all the drives had unique labels, now the
drives I can't access are labeled local disk.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of
XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself.
In disk management it shows the C: drive in the volume list with the type
as basic, online, and healthy. The C: and two other partitions are primary
on the 60G hard drive and the other four partitions are on extended
partition as logical drives. I have truly tried to do everything I know to
do but it isn't enough. Any suggestions on how to obtain access?
Re-installing doesn't appear to be the solution because it will let me
re-install as many times as I want if I have the drive space. Any help
someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is seriously
affecting my small business. l am a graphic designer with a lot of files
that I need access to. Right now reformatting the hard drive is not a
option for me.

Sincerely,
Cecelia