How do is recover my files...

[gWeezY]

i have a hard drive that is partion as C:\ and D:\. C is my default drive for the windows installation and D is the My Documents folder. The hard drive got messed up after a power outage. When i start my PC there is a message says that "...WINDOS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG..." is missing or corrupt. I got a new hard drive that i installed WinXP to and connected my old hard drive as slave. With XP running on the new hard drive i access to both partions of my old hard drive.
The thing is that when i try to open My Music or My Pictures there is a message saying that access is denied.
Question: how do i stop this or go around it without reformatting my old drive.
Please help.

[jimmalenko]

Is the error message just "Access is denied", or does it give you a couple more sentences after that which explain WHY access is denied ?

[Guest]

I have a separate partition for photos,etc. I had to reformat my os partition. It didnt affect my data partition.

[guns1inger]

There is a refernce in the M$ knowledge base about this. Basically, your new account has a different ID to your old account, and this is where the permissions have got screwed up. There is a way to take ownership of the old folders so you can access them.

Try this one to start with

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

or this for a variation on a theme

http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/reinstall-reformat-winxp/two-copies-xp.html

[kmzpub]

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[thecoalman]

You could just get something like knoppix, it's a OS you burn to CD. Pop it in and restart your comp. Copy the files whereever you want. Reboot to windows and wallah..... It's a pretty big download, I keep a copy around for just such occasions.