retreve files from NTFS disk after XP-crach

From: Åsmund Kveim Lie (dontsendtothisaddress@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/11/02 

From: "Åsmund Kveim Lie" <dontsendtothisaddress@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:36:46 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to solve this problem for quite a wile now and I would
appreciate any help.

The story starts one day I was working on my computer (with XP pro). I
restarted the machine and when it came to HD detection it would not go any
further. Hmm... Dead. OK, I inserted my XP CD and used the recovery function
to get an command window. Everything was there. I tried to install XP again
on top of the existing one, but no result. Then I tried to install XP again,
but this time reformatting the partition first (not c: but another witch I
did not use), restarted. Nothing. Then I went over to my fried and inserted
my disk into her computer witch also uses XP. I found all files. The reason
why I went to all this trouble and did not just format the entire disk was
that I wanted some of the files. The problem was that these files were under
My Documents.

Even though I was an administrator on my friends computer (user with
administrator rights) I was not able to access the files on my disk
(Permission denied..). WHY??

Is there any way I can copy them out before I reformat the disk? More than
anything I want an answer to why this behavior? I could copy any files,
except the once that used to be mine.. I also tried to make an new
Administrator account with the same username as I had on my computer, but no
success.

Please help me. Or if nothing can be done with it, is there a reason why
NTFS behaves like this? I thought that administrator should be able to do
anything.

Thanks for your response.

Regards,

Åsmund Kveim Lie ;o)

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