Access Denied to my Documents

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Barry

I added a new hard drive to my computer and installed
windows xp onto it, to be used as the boot drive. My old
hard drive I put as a secondary drive and Windows XP was
also installed on it when it was my only drive. I can not
access The my documents folder on the older drive, it
give me an access denied message. I have many important
document that I need to get out of that folder. How would
I do that?
 
Barry said:
I added a new hard drive to my computer and installed
windows xp onto it, to be used as the boot drive. My old
hard drive I put as a secondary drive and Windows XP was
also installed on it when it was my only drive. I can not
access The my documents folder on the older drive, it
give me an access denied message. I have many important
document that I need to get out of that folder. How would
I do that?
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All you may need to do is take ownership see

How to Take Ownership
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

HOWEVER, if you encrypted the data and did not back up the encryption key,
then you are SOL because Windows generates a new key on each reinstallation,
so I'm afraid, if that's the scenario, your data is as good as gone.

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