Help please need to get a document off drive

[johnandtricia]

Ok here is the story the wife's computer croaked and she needs to get an important college paper off the hard drive. I moved the hd to my comp and got it up and running. The problem is I am unable to acess her folder in the my docs on her drive says the drive may be full or write protected I cant copy anything or rename it. PLease help I need to get this and yes she did not make a back up.

 

[Chernobyl1]

XP's built in security has probably restricted access to her data unless logged in as herself on the original machine.
You probably only need to take ownership of the folder.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881/

 

[djnes]

Where's nessus? He's right, this should be a sticky. It's never ever searched for, but it's asked several times a day it seems.

 

[johnandtricia]

Thanks brother it worked you rule I bow to your greatness