Re: access denied

From: Taurarian Constellation (taurarianREMOVECAPS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:25:21 +1000

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421
HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP

NOTE: You must be logged on to the computer using an account that has administrative
privileges. If you are running Windows XP Home Edition, in order to have access to
the Security tab, you must first start in Safe Mode and log on with an account that
has Administrative rights.

The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

"seafan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2f5901c4ae6b$79f92000$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I have 2 hard drives in my system running windows xp home
> edition. I use the d drive as a backup drive. I had to
> reinstall windows xp and download sp1 and sp2 and now I
> cannot access the files on drive d. All my data was
> copied or backed up to drive d and now I can't get it
> back. When I try copy back the files I copied over...I
> get access denied; when I try to restore the files I
> backed up with window backup, the catalog will not
> recognize the backup file. Help!!! This is years worth
> of data, photos and music. I read article 810881 and this
> seemed to describe my problem but I do not have the tabs
> or lists it says to clear showing on my computer.

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