accessing hard disk

From: Mick (mcayton@ntlworld.com)
Date: 07/12/02


From: "Mick" <mcayton@ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:33:40 -0700


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, I recently got a new computer with Windows XP. My
old
>computer burnt out, so I moved a hard disk from my old
>computer (windows 2000) to my new computer (windows XP).
>Whenever I try to access the disk on my new computer, I
>get a message: access is denied. Only a couple users had
>access to the hard drive on the windows 2000 computer,
but
>using the same user name and password I can't access it
at
>all in windows XP. Does anyone have any idea how i can
>get back into this hard drive?
>.
>You don't mention if the old disk is now a slave or still
a master. If you have added the disk as a secondary drtive
to the new computer you will need to change the jumper
settings. Then check in the BIOS to see if the pc
can "see" it



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