Reinstalled XP on a New hard drive

[Gena Z]

My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not
backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of
being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation
went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.
However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get
the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new
drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Gena Z wrote:
> My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents
> were not backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP
> with the hopes of being able to access my files from the orignal
> hard drive. The installation went fine and I am now able to access
> certain folders on my old hard drive. However, I cannot access
> files under my user profile in My Documents. I get the error
> message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
> conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on
> the new drive.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Search using Google!
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(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP

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MS-MVP
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:42:00 -0700, Gena Z <Gena
Z@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My hard drive crashed and I was unable to boot. Since my documents were not
> backed up I purchased a new hard drive, and reinstalled XP with the hopes of
> being able to access my files from the orignal hard drive. The installation
> went fine and I am now able to access certain folders on my old hard drive.
> However, I cannot access files under my user profile in My Documents. I get
> the error message that access is denied. I have a feeling this is due to a
> conflict in the user profiles from XP on the old drive and XP on the new
> drive.



Take ownership: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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