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Access Denied to old hard disk moved to newly built system
My PC was on its last legs and so I rebuilt it with new motherboard, memory, processor and larger hard disk.
The old hard disk was moved alongside the new one but when I tried to access my details on the old hard disk, to move them over, I get the message "access denied". The new PC has been built with the same software setup ( XP service pack 2 build 2600 ) and the same accounts with the same passwords set up. I cannot access the hard disk even as "admin".
I would have thought that having admin rights would give me access to any hard disk physically attached to my PC. I am sure that VMS used to allow this and UNIX too. (Not that I used to do this sort of things every day with those setups).
Please help. Being the consumate IT professional I don't have a backup for the very latest data that was added. Nothing I can't live without but this is very embarrassing..
Dave
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