Drive permissions in XP

[Guest]

Hello,
I was running windows 2K proffesional and just decided to
upgrade to XP-Pro. I have a secondary hard drive I use
for backup files and reinstall information which I had
specific permissions set on thru win2K. Whenver I
reinstalled win2K pro I would have to go into the drive
settings and reset access to it, so the "new" owner of
the computer could access it. Apparently every fresh
install it thought the drive had changed hands. Well now
that i've switched to XP the options for setting drive
permissions no longer exist in any form I can recognize.
The drive is there, and working and I can see the file
structure through the computer managment app but every
time I attempt to access D:\ I get a "D:\ is not
accessible" message. This is the same problem I had in
2K but no I can't seem to find a way to give myself
access to the old drive anymore????

Any help is GREATLY appreciated,
Aaron

 

[Hal]

Hi,
Your situation sounds similar, but not quite identical to
mine. However, I thought I'd reply anyway, since you or
others may have info on this.

I was running Windows 2000 Pro on a 6 gig hard drive in
my Dell. I began to have lots of problems and one day
finally it would not start up and I received this
message: "Windows 2000 could not start because the
following file is missing or corrput: <Windows 2000
root>\System32\ntoskrnl.exe" I had not backed anything up.

So, I decided to install a new 20 gig hard drive in the
same box and install Windows XP Home Edition on it. The
plan was to leave the old 6 gig drive formatted with Win
2000, and then to move the files over to XP. The new
drive was renamed C and the old drive was renamed D.

However, after installing Win XP, my computer can see the
old drive (D, but cannot see the file structure. If I
try to access it, I am told the D: drive is not formatted
and asked if I want to format. Wanting to preserve the
old files, I say "no."

Any ideas why I can't see the files on the old Win 2000
drive?

-Hal