File Recovery from "Documents and settings" 1

[nerfman]

My motherboard went bad and corrupted my Win XP Pro.
I can access the drive after installing XP on new drive.

When I try to look at "Documents and settings", and a specific user folder an error occurs, saying access denied.

Who can I get access to or copy the data from this directory?

 

[damber]

If you haven't encrypted the filesystem you should be able to take ownership using an administrator account and set permissions as you wish.

Goto Properties > Security > Advanced > Owner > Select your administrative user to change the ownership to and select replace permissions on subdirectories etc

Then modify the permissions in the security tab to allow whoever / whatever you want to have access to the files.

If you encrypted the filesystem, then it is a whole lot harder!


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[nerfman]

damber, Thanks your info seems sound. What do you right click on to get to properties, security on another drive?

I clicked on the drive letter, the "documents and settings" folder and the user folder. I found no security tab under properties.

This drive is my old XP drive. I have recovered other directorys. Tried to create a user name the same as folder but nothing seems to work. I still get access denied.

Any other hints would be greatly appr....

 

[damber]

You seem to have the simple view enabled and are probably part of a workgroup rather than a domain, try:

either
hold down [Ctrl] whilst right clicking and selecting properties
or
Goto Start >Settings >Control Panel > Appearance & Themes > Folder Options > View/Advanced, then clear "Use Simple File Sharing"

I've not tested it but it should then enable you to see the security tab.

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[nerfman]

damber,

Thank you so very much. The 'ctl' right click on properties did the trick.

I did it on the drive letter and changed the permissions including all the children. Now I have full access to the drive again.

[COLOR=red yellow]Cudo's to you[/color].

 

[damber]

Great - glad you got it sorted - nothings worse than potential data loss !

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