Recovering files from a slave drive

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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.
 
Oh, one more thing. I tried creating the same username and signing into my
computer. I asked if he had a password, he told me no. Could this work if
has a password and didn't remember?
 
Mike said:
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.
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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
 
Mike said:
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.
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Should of Googled with what you 'knew'. *grin*

How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP
 
Thanks, forgot about the simple file sharing. See the files now!

Malke said:
Mike said:
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.
Click to expand...

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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Mike said:
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.
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I am having a similar problem. My Computer crashed (Using XP Home). I
removed the Hard Drive and put it in an older computer I have running Windows
2000. I can see the files but can't move or open (Access Denied). How can I
get these files onto a HD using 2000?
 
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