HELP! Need to access files on an old C drive (reinstalled in new machine)

[Trimble]

Hi!

I'm hoping someone here can help me with this problem.

I had a raid array in an old machine which died. I bought a raid controller to put into another machine to access the array. That part is working.

The array contains the C drive from my old computer with XP as the OS.

I've mounted the array as D: in this new temp machine.

I can access all of the files on the drive EXCEPT the My Documents folder for my own login on that drive. When I attempt to access those files, I get "Access Denied". I think I may have once set my profile to make the files private, but I don't think their encrypted.

How can I access those files? I have wedding photos in there that I want to get.

I have tried mounting the array as C and simply booting directly into it, but when I do that the mouse and keyboard don't respond (probably due to the different motherboard hardware, and the fact that XP's plug and play is not automatically attempting to correct the drivers).

HELP!

How can you take an old drive C from a dead computer, plug it into another machine as another drive, and access files that are listed as access denied?

I bet the IT industry has solved this...

[Jon]

Bring up Sharing and Security on the entire drive (right-click the D: and select Sharing and Security) -> go to the Security tab -> click on the Advanced button -> choose the Owner tab -> remove the old owner and enter your current administrator/user account. Click OK to get back to the Security tab. Remove all Groups/Users except your local administrator/user account and make sure it is set to Full Control. Technically, you can match it all to whatever your C: is set to and you'll be good.

This may take a while to complete depending on how much is on the drive. All permissions on the entire drive will have to be changed. That should get you in though.

[Big Mike]

Are you using the EXACT same account name and password on the new install? the documents and settings folders for a particular user are typically protected by windows installs against being accessed by someone without the proper login for that user account, even if the hard drive is in a new machine. Your other option is a boot disk that can read NTFS but isn't fully windows based to copy the files out of the folder.

[Airbornederekc]

you need to turn off simple file sharing and then go to the properties of that folder and take ownership.

[loks]

you need to turn off simple file sharing and then go to the properties of that folder and take ownership.
Pop in that old HD as your OS again, remove your password, pop in the new one and you should be able to get in with no prob.:burn: