Data Recovery

[Herbster63]

Had Trouble retrieving data from a hard drive that crashed kept getting access denied message due to my documents having a password on it but following Kimsland advice(below) data recovered Phew thought i lost all my photos
Thanks a million



Xp pro on crashed drive
Xp Home on system i put drive into


Thanks to Techspot For This Great Site Also
Cheers Herb

 

[kimsland]

Security Permission issue http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/security/permissions.mspx

Right click the folder you want to open and choose Properties>Security. Make sure their is a group named "Everyone". If not click Add>Advanced>"Find Now" and choose everyone. Click OK and you should no longer get those nasty Access Denied messages. (refer to the above link to allow specifically your user account to access the old Hard Drive folders)

Note: in Windows Xp Home, the "Security" menu will not show. Just start your computer in Safe Mode (continuously press F8 function key on computer Startup then select Safe Mode)
Also confirm that you are running an Administrator privlidged account. (Check Users in Control Panel)

 

[kimsland]

How did it all go ?

 

[Herbster63]

Thanks

Thanks Kimland edited my first post so mucked things up abit lol but re edited it hope that dont stuff things up but wasnt to hard in the end the safe mode for home made the diff

will leave post alone next time lol

 

[kimsland]

Great to hear it's resolved