Re: Locked Out of My Own Files...!!

From: Andrej Budja (andrej@mvps.org)
Date: 07/22/02 

From: Andrej Budja <andrej@mvps.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:43:40 +0200

Right click on the folder, select Properties, go to Security tab,
click Advanced button. Go to owner tab select your account and
"replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and click OK.

Andrej

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 03:45:53 -0700, "Jason" <crabpot27@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I added a newly formatted hard drive to my system to run
>my OS (WinXPpro). I moved my original hard drive to the
>slave position to use as storage, and house my backup
>files. (I used to boot into WinXP using this drive)
>
>Permissions must have been set on my own "my documents"
>folder, and all of it's contents when it was the main
>drive. Now, booting off of the new drive and logging in
>as administrator, I am denied access when attempting to
>acces my files on the other drive.
>
>I am locked out of my own files! Can anyone help me
>reclaim them? I tried to boot back up using the old
>drive, but NTLDR is missing, and it wont boot. I don't
>want to lose my files.
>
>Any clues? Please email me. crabpot27@hotmail.com
>
>Thanks,
>
>jason