Re: accessing private folder on different administration account

From: Rod (fake@fake.com)
Date: 07/21/02


From: "Rod" <fake@fake.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:08:07 -0700


Go into the security settings of the folder and take ownership.

"James" <jmsmirage@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1889901c23086$4d397fc0$2ae2c90a@hosting.microsoft.com...
> I recently had suffered a crash on my computer, as a
> result, I had precious data in the 'my documents' folder
> that was marked as 'private', I couldn't get access to my
> documents because windows was missing some system files
> and couldn't load, now I installed windows xp on a new
> hard drive, and have the old HD set as a slave, I'm
> trying to access my documents folder so I could copy my
> documents to the new harddrive, but when clicking the
> folder, it says 'access denied' I really need to get in
> the folder because some of the documents are really
> important to me.. Is there anyway to overcome the 'access
> denied' issue and still be able to get access to my
> files? I'd GREATLY appreciate if somebody could help me
> out.
> Thanks



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