piyush Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Hi allI am a newbie to the group and it is my first post...so pls excuse if i am violating a ruleI had windows XP lock 'My Documents' folder on my AMD 64-bit machine. Then i removed the hard disk from that machine and attached it as a secondary HDD to a pentium III machine.Btw...i had changed the default path of the 'My Documents' folder on the original machine.The new machine also runs Windows XP + SP2. It shows the size of the folder as 0 bytes and when i click on the folder, an error message 'Access is Denied' pops up.Please advise me a way out as it has some really important documents and there is no way i can attach it back to the original machine.I would really appreciate any help you could give.Thanx for your time,Cheers!Piyush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I think the prob was removing the hdd from one machine and putting into another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefoxthebomb Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 you could try to take ownership of the folder with the current machine it is on, but if you had encrypted files in there you may loose them. Right click on the folder and do Properties and go to the security tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piyush Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 hey guys..thnx fer replying.Please allow me to rephrase my problem. The said folder was made private on the original machine. Is there no way to access it on the new machine? The size shown is still zero and i did not encrypt the data. Only made it private there. Is there no way at all ?Thanks again,Piyush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 I dont think it is possible...at least from what I have experienced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonex Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Why don't you make a Windows XP Live disc with Bart PE and then boot off the disc and see if you can access your files through there?- Just a thought. Might work, might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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