Can't get into restricted files...not good

[kipperedbeef]

Ok, here is the story in as much of a nutshell as I can put it in. I used to run 2 hard drives, 1 master, 1 slave, the 60 g.b. western digital was my c drive. I had 2 accounts set up on it, one for me, one for my girlfriend. Under the advice of my roomate...grrr..I restricted the documents and settings under my user name so that they would be private, just for me. That was cool..no problems. I recently upgraded to a whole new system, I now have 3 hard drives running, and I made that western digital a slave to my new one. Long story short I'm not able to access the documents and settings on the old hard drive because I made them non-shared files, how can I get that stuff to be available again? I've got homework and all kinds of other important stuff in there. Any help would be greatly appreciated...thanks.

[sedative]

disconnect the master, reconnect your WD as master, boot up, make the folder shared again, reconnect the new drive as master. simplest way i can think of.

[Aaron]

I had this situation before, where I had to install XP again into a different windows directory since repair did no good.

Since you're an Admin on your newly installed XP OS, take Ownership of the files you've restricted, e.g. go to the properties of the folder thats named with your own name, then take ownership of it (hidden away in the advanced settings) and tick the box where it says to apply to all child objects (it applies ownership of all sub-folders - if any).

After a while, all your folders should be accessable to you

[kipperedbeef]

I'll give it a whirl, thanks for the help...