adding a drive to WindowsXP

I have a new drive that has info on it from a Windows2000
machine. It was seen by WindowsXP and it recognizes the 2
NTFS partitions on it however I cannot access it. How can
I setup WindowsXP to recognize this new harddrive without
losing the information on it?
This is my 2nd post. The previous replies on 6/14 mention
initializing the drive and taking ownership. I understand
this and I will on all the files as soon as I can explore
the drive. In disk manager, it shows the partitions as
NTFS however if I attempt to explore it, I get an error
message reading: "F: drive is (I forget..I'm not at that
machine now). Access is denied". Essentially, I cannot
access the drive. How do I take ownership of it in
WindowsXP?

Is it possible to boot the win2k drive and then do a backup to tape or CD's
of the data you want to retrieve? Otherwise I think you're running into NTFS
security problems.

I'm not sure if you can convert the NTFS partitions back to FAT 32 which
would solve the problem but I would think that backing up the data to CD's
or tape would be a safer solution.

"Jason" wrote in message
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I have a new drive that has info on it from a Windows2000
machine. It was seen by WindowsXP and it recognizes the 2
NTFS partitions on it however I cannot access it. How can
I setup WindowsXP to recognize this new harddrive without
losing the information on it?
This is my 2nd post. The previous replies on 6/14 mention
initializing the drive and taking ownership. I understand
this and I will on all the files as soon as I can explore
the drive. In disk manager, it shows the partitions as
NTFS however if I attempt to explore it, I get an error
message reading: "F: drive is (I forget..I'm not at that
machine now). Access is denied". Essentially, I cannot
access the drive. How do I take ownership of it in
WindowsXP?