Re: Recovering files from a slave drive
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:57:24 -0800
Mike wrote:
A friend of mines computer crashed. I basically have to reinstall the O/S on it. However, he has roughly 30GB worth of music on his drive. I know reinstalling and not formatting the drive shouldn't erase this, but I don't want to take a chance. So, I put in his drive as a slave and was planning on copying his files to my HD temporarily as a backup. The problem is this that there are 3 profiles on the drive, two of them I am able to get to (able to copy "user's pictures", "users documents"). Unfortunately, I can't get to my friends documents folder where all his music is stored. It keeps giving me access denied to this. I tried everything that I can think of and so I'm asking you. I believe he is an Admin on the computer and the others aren't so that may explain why I can see the other's files. My computer is running XP Pro SP2. The slave drive, I believe, is windows XP Home SP2. I know in W2K3 I'm able to "take ownership" of files, but that's a server. Hoping something similar can be done here.
Thanks for any help.
You just need to take ownership of the files.
Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? - http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm
You don't need to create another user account with his name.
Malke
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