Opening an orphaned Private Folder ???

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I lost my MBRecord plus some and reinstalled XP to a new drive, now am
recovering data from the damaged drive. I cannot open folders set as
"Private" Under Folder properties --> Sharing on the old drive.. Since the
old windows installation on that drive is lost, I don't know how to reset
permissions for these folders. Can anyone help???
 
Mitchell Carpentry said:
I lost my MBRecord plus some and reinstalled XP to a new drive, now am
recovering data from the damaged drive. I cannot open folders set as
"Private" Under Folder properties --> Sharing on the old drive.. Since
the
old windows installation on that drive is lost, I don't know how to reset
permissions for these folders. Can anyone help???
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If you hadn't encrypted the data files (which could not have been done
with WinXP Home), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions
issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421


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Bruce Chambers said:
If you hadn't encrypted the data files (which could not have been done
with WinXP Home), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions
issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?
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Thank you for the help, I followed the KB link and brought back those files
with little difficulty.

Pen Mitchell
(e-mail address removed)
 
Mitchell Carpentry said:
Thank you for the help, I followed the KB link and brought back those
files
with little difficulty.

Pen Mitchell
(e-mail address removed)
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You're welcome.

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

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