Hi guys, new here, urgently looking for help with a problem, sorry if posted in wrong place.
It's quite a long story. My computer was left for a few mins, when I got back was frozen, wouldnt respond to anything, had to do hard shutdown. Turned back on, freezes before it has even booted anything, and cant access BIOS setup either.
I put my HD into another computer as the primary master, it booted up, got to Windows XP loading screen, just restarted itself.
I've now put it in as secondary master, and I can boot the computer with it's own HD, onto its own copy of windows, and then get to my own original HD. But when I try to access my documents, i go to D:\Documents and Settings, click the folder for my username, and it says "not accessible, access denied". Is there any way to get around this, or indeed anything you can suggest to get the original computer working again? Any help greatly appreciated.
Original computer: WinXP Home SP2.
Second computer: WinXP Home SP1.
It's quite a long story. My computer was left for a few mins, when I got back was frozen, wouldnt respond to anything, had to do hard shutdown. Turned back on, freezes before it has even booted anything, and cant access BIOS setup either.
I put my HD into another computer as the primary master, it booted up, got to Windows XP loading screen, just restarted itself.
I've now put it in as secondary master, and I can boot the computer with it's own HD, onto its own copy of windows, and then get to my own original HD. But when I try to access my documents, i go to D:\Documents and Settings, click the folder for my username, and it says "not accessible, access denied". Is there any way to get around this, or indeed anything you can suggest to get the original computer working again? Any help greatly appreciated.
Original computer: WinXP Home SP2.
Second computer: WinXP Home SP1.