Hi all, I had a system crash after installing drivers for a d-link wireless card (PCI). In the system that the crash occured on I had 2 Harddrives: one Maxtor SATA 200GB, and one Maxtor IDE 160GB. I used the 200GB for windows and my documents, and I used the 160GB for PS2 game backup ISO's and media files. The crash involved a BSOD when trying to load windows, and it reset many of my BIOS settings. It also corrupted my 200GB hard drive, but did'nt harm the 160GB one. I have since changed back the BIOS settings, and I installed XP onto the 160GB hard drive, in order to salvage the damaged one. at first the damaged one wouldnt open saying "Drive G is corrupt and unreadable". I then ran chkdsk and it fixed tons of errors so that I can now browse the HDD, but it still wont boot windows off of it, giving me another BSOD. What I really need is the files in the "My Documents" folder on my 200GB HDD, the one that was corrupted and repaired. HERE IS THE PROBLEM: I had the folder made private on my old windows installation, and not password protected. when I try to get in now I get "access denied" errors because of that. I NEED to get in there in order to take the important stuff out and put it on the 160GB hard drive. afterwards I will go about trying to fix the windows installation on that drive. I appreciate all of your help ahead of time, but I do ask one thing: please don't give me help with the crash, restoring windows, or those issues, I will deal with them myself, all I need is a way to get into a private folder on one hard drive that doesnt have windows, from another hard drive that does. Thanks for reading, and if anything is unclear please let me know. Thanks.
nope, will try it now, I cannot open safe mode on the 200GB one, only on the 160GB one. Thanks for the help, I will let you know if it works.
Didnt work, access still denied, the files are not hidden, they are in a folder that is private (so that everyone can see hte folder, but not access it or see inside it unless they are on that person's name, which is impossible because I cant boot XP on that hard drive to log on to my name.) Thanks for helping me.
have you tried repairing windows on the 200gb using windows xp disc?? that doesn't remove your folders just repairs xp...
no I havent done that yet, although that would not help my problem at all. I plan to do that AFTER I solve the problem I asked about. I do appreciate your help, but I wish you would please make sure to read and understand my post. "please don't give me help with the crash, restoring windows, or those issues, I will deal with them myself, all I need is a way to get into a private folder on one hard drive that doesnt have windows, from another hard drive that does." anyways, I did find the answer to my question elsewhere, in the form of a link to a page on the windows webstie pertaining to changing the ownership of a folder. Here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 Thanks.
i did read your post, you never said you had put in xp disc and used the repaire option, you stated "I NEED to get in there in order to take the important stuff out and put it on the 160GB hard drive. afterwards I will go about trying to fix the windows installation on that drive." won't bother next time
I was trying to be as nice as I could, and I really didnt mean to piss you off. I mainly put that "please don't give me help with the crash, restoring windows, or those issues," clause in to save everyone elses time, it doesnt hurt me if your response is useless to me. Thanks for trying to help. also ddp, thanks for your help, but what do you mean by "teach and learn" ? Thanks to both for your help
you taught yourself something so you learned something besides doing the same to us, that is the meaning of teach & learn!!
Or if you are a coiffeur, it would be bleach & perm. Not my joke, the credit for that goes to another one of the ADers, not sure which one! Pulsar
