Retrieving data from old hard drive
Written by shaners on April 27th, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
A friend of mines old computer died when the power supply fried the Mother Board & the processor. So he bought a new PC and wants to retrieve the existing data on the old hard drive.
According to him what he did was move the jumpers to slave on the old hard drive and installed it in the new computer.
He can see all the files, but he gets an ‘access denied’ error message when he tries to open or copy them.
Anyone have any idea how to regain access to these files? Both drives are NTFS old 60GB new 200GB, both computers run XP?
Some things I asked him were: When he boots up, are you getting a choice between the drives to use?
Should he be booting from the new drive, not the old drive.
Have you tried booting up in Safe Mode as the Administrator & then try to access the files?
Now, he is booting off the new drive. He set the jumpers (old drive) to cable select and plugged the drive into the slave connector cable.
He has given booting in safe mode a try. So far everything else he has tried, to gain permissions to those files ends up not working. He can’t find all the files, they are right where he left them when the old computer got smoked … so at least the drive appears to be OK.
It’s just frustrating to be that close to the files and yet I can’t touch the.
Is it possible that the files are under the ownership of the XP old profile?. If he went to explorer right-clicked the old drive, selected the properties, clicked the security tab, clicked the advanced tab and then clicked owner. Chose the name of the XP profile he is currently using and ticked the option ‘Replace owner on subcontainers and objects’ and clicked OK. Would this change the ownership rights to his new XP profile allowing him to manipulate your old files.
OR should he download winfile.exe and instal it. Then select the old drive and choose security and give himself ownership to all folders & files. would that do the trick! would he be able to access all files?
OR do it manually by disabling “simple file sharing” in XP-Pro & change ownership//permissions.
* (xp-home = must go in safe mode to access the same type of ownership//permissions)
Any thoughts on this problem
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