[rawsox]

my hard drive went wrong a few days ago its a 400gb s-ata, basically i needed to install xp again on it again, therefore losing everything i have on it, i decided to use a 80gb hard drive and a 250gb external hard drive to sort the mess out. i installed both and then installed the faulty hard drive as a slave drive, so i could transfer all my films music files settings etc to the external hard drive, then re-install xp on the 400gb hdd and make it master and transfer back the files from the external hard drive, if that makes any sense. The problem i have is i cannot access my 400gb hdd through my computer running the 80gb to access my files to transfer them to the external, it says i dont have permission to access, access denied. is there any way of removing the security of the drive to allow access to my old files for transfer? thanks

[pete21]

i did this and as the drive i wos trying to get data from wos password protected still let me into the drive

if you can rig the harddrive up again and delite your password acound and then try again other than that i have no idea :)

[rawsox]

but there isnt a place for a password, i can click on the drive and go to documents but when i double click to go to my documents an error message appears and says f:\documents and settings\den's computer is not accessible, access is denied. i need to go to my documents to get my files. Very frustrating!!!

[pete21]

areee rite i could on mine so i think it should let you...so could be that wot your trying to access is corrupted ..

can you do a search on that harddrive? and maybe put in the search documents or the files name your trying to recover? failing that you could try a softwere that can scan a harddrive and show you your deleted files this software is to recover deleted files ect but it will bring every file pic and video up for you :) you just pick wot you want and save:) i think thats worth a shot if still no look . there is loads of free trial versions out there search recover my files :) hope this helps

[rf6647]

You may have already solved this, but I will duplicate the reply given to another for what I judge to be the same.

[SIZE=2]It is likely that you need Admin permissions to access these files. This thread ( [/SIZE][SIZE=2]http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f48/access-denied-all-sudden-9897/[/SIZE][SIZE=2] ) has info using ‘cacls’ in the command prompt window to give full permissions to your login user name. Start small – pick an expendable file / directory. After gaining confidence, apply it to the whole drive (assumes drive other than the c: drive or other boot drive).
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[philthomas]

Or you may just need to take ownership of the files/folders :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881