Access Denied

[dp152]

Here's my situation. A few months back, I had two computers. I decided to disassemble one of them to do some case modding, and, in the meantime, I also decided to set up dual monitors on my other computer. I end up getting rid of the 2nd case, opting to put my best computer components in the newly modified case. My only problem is that I want some of my car movies that were on my OTHER hard drive. I setup a master and slave IDE chain thingy, with the old hard drive as the slave. I can access almost all the files, no problem. My only problem is, the actual content I care about I had saved in a folder on my desktop. When I navigate to desktop folder on the old harddrive and explore that certain user's folder, I get an "Access Denied" error message.

Cliff Notes: I had two computers both with Windows XP on them. Computer 1, the old computer, was disassembled and the harddrive out of Computer 1 was set as a slave on the IDE chain of Computer 2. I want to access some movie files that were saved into a folder on the desktop of Computer 1. When I navigate to "E:\Documents and Settings\Daniel\Desktop," (where the files are saved), I get an "Access Denied" error message.

Everyone still with me? Good. Is there any way around this Access Denial? I've tried booting into safe mode, and I've also done some Google searching, but to no avail.

Help!

Daniel

[djnes]

Create a user account with the same username and password as the account from the old computer (the same account for which the desktop is under). Log in to that account, and it should let you access the files. Make sure the account you create has admin rights.

Also, when in doubt, Ghost to image file to Ghost Explorer ALWAYS works.

[dp152]

Hm...I tried creating a new account with the same name and all, but how do I tell it to use that log in? When I do it on Computer 2's harddrive (the master HDD that I boot WinXP with), it creates a random account. Is there a way to specify which HDD to use?


By the way, I tried setting the old HDD (Computer 1's HDD) to master and it wouldn't boot at all.

[dp152]

Also, sorry for being such a newb, but what do you mean by "Ghost to image file to Ghost Explorer"?

Thanks!

[djnes]

You use Ghost to create an image file, then use Ghost Explorer to open the image file and extract any of the files you want from the partition.

[dp152]

Norton Ghost? That's what I figured. Is there any free trial or anything? I dont really want to spend money for just this one thing. It's not THAT important.

[TLS2000]

You need to disable simple file sharing and take ownership of the files.

NTFS won't let you access the files because they are owned by a different user on a different computer.

To disable simple file sharing:

1. Open up My Computer
2. On the File menu, select Tools, then Folder Options.
3. Under the VIEW tab, scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Options, deselect Simple File Sharing
4. Click OK

To take ownership of a file or folder:

1. Browse to the folder (If you take ownership of a folder, all files and folders inside it become yours as well)
2. Right-click on your mouse, select Properties.
3. Under the Security tab, click on Add under Groups or User Names
4. In the text box provided, type in your login name from the current computer, or if NTFS security isn't a big deal to you, type Administrators
5. Click OK

You now own the files and can do anything you want with them.

[djnes]

Norton Ghost? That's what I figured. Is there any free trial or anything? I dont really want to spend money for just this one thing. It's not THAT important.

No, but if your working on a computer as most of us do, Ghost is an invaluable tool to have around.

[Ice Czar]

You need to disable simple file sharing and take ownership of the files.

NTFS won't let you access the files because they are owned by a different user on a different computer.

To disable simple file sharing:

1. Open up My Computer
2. On the File menu, select Tools, then Folder Options.
3. Under the VIEW tab, scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Options, deselect Simple File Sharing
4. Click OK

To take ownership of a file or folder:

1. Browse to the folder (If you take ownership of a folder, all files and folders inside it become yours as well)
2. Right-click on your mouse, select Properties.
3. Under the Security tab, click on Add under Groups or User Names
4. In the text box provided, type in your login name from the current computer, or if NTFS security isn't a big deal to you, type Administrators
5. Click OK

You now own the files and can do anything you want with them.


^ what he said :p ;)

NTFS Permissions (http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/592/toc.html?)

your current install doesnt know that you own those files
the permissions need to be reset \ adopted

[dp152]

You need to disable simple file sharing and take ownership of the files.

NTFS won't let you access the files because they are owned by a different user on a different computer.

To disable simple file sharing:

1. Open up My Computer
2. On the File menu, select Tools, then Folder Options.
3. Under the VIEW tab, scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Options, deselect Simple File Sharing
4. Click OK

To take ownership of a file or folder:

1. Browse to the folder (If you take ownership of a folder, all files and folders inside it become yours as well)
2. Right-click on your mouse, select Properties.
3. Under the Security tab, click on Add under Groups or User Names
4. In the text box provided, type in your login name from the current computer, or if NTFS security isn't a big deal to you, type Administrators
5. Click OK

You now own the files and can do anything you want with them.

I followed your instructions exactly. I still get the same error message.

[Vertigo Acid]

This would probably be because you are not logged in as administrator, you are logged in as whatever default account XP makes for you and sets to auto-login. Try logging in as administrator and doing the same thing. also, did you encrypt the folder? if so, the only way to get at it would be to boot into it's original OS and decrypt it first. Hmm, guess you could just do that anyway and copy over the files like that.

[dp152]

Ok, so I broke down and per djnes's recommendation, I bought Ghost 9.0. It worked like a charm! I am glad I bought it, too. I can definitely see how beneficial it can be.

Thanks for all the help guys!