My old HDD crashes due to imminient failure, so I installed XP on a new HDD. Evrything is fine with the new HDD, and i connect my old HDD to the secondary. I want to copy my data from the old HDD, the data is located in "My Documents" in my old user profile under "documents and settings" and I had set my previous user profile to "make my folders private". Now i am not able to access to my old data.
I have also checked on the local security settings trying to change the ownership and user permission but to no avail. I wasn't able to modify any security setting or the permission under the folder's properties. Much difference from windows2000, any help is appreciated!
Firstly are you using Xp Home or Pro.
If you are using Home there is nothing you can do.
If you are using Pro.
Right click on the folder you want to access on the old drive.
Select the security settings and try to take ownership of it.
You may need to add yourself to the users for that folder first.
Sorry I do not have an example in front of me to explain in more detail but you get the idea.
I signed in as administrator but I couldn't changed due to unable to save permission changes to new owner which is due to device I/O error.
nevermind, guess like i have to get some thrid party software to recover my lost data. Any of you has any idea of thrid party Software besides Notron untilities, any free-ware?
There's a shareware program called getdataback on download.com. In the shareware versions you can open the files in a program, them save them one by one, but you can't save ALL of the files into a recovery directory at once. But the program works great.
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