rssfed23 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 (edited) Hi there,I recently had to reinstall windows from clean. But i have all of my documents on seperate partitions.I now have a problem though: i made some of the folders on the drive provate, and now that ive re-installed everything i can no longer acess them, so i am wondering if there is any way i can get the data inside them back?Can any one help (i am running windows XP home edition)?Many thanks in advance,RobTitle Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian Edited December 15, 2005 by Zxian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Symbiosis Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 I don't have any experience with XP Home, but in XP Pro you would ahve to make yourself owner of the directory and then give yourself full access to the folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagerBeaver Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Hi there,I recently had to reinstall windows from clean. But i have all of my documents on seperate partitions.I now have a problem though: i made some of the folders on the drive provate, and now that ive re-installed everything i can no longer acess them, so i am wondering if there is any way i can get the data inside them back?Can any one help (i am running windows XP home edition)?Many thanks in advance,RobHow did you make them private? Third party folder locking software? Or is it just that the user from your old XP install has rights to the files/folders? If that is the case, Doc is correct. If you right click - properties - you can go into the permissions section and claim rights to the folders. Make sure you check the box for child entries as well, if this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rssfed23 Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 I did it with the normal windows permissions thing.One problem, there is no permissions box coming up, i think this is because i am on XP home.Any more ideas?Thanks for the replys,Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claymore1746 Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 In XP-home the Security tab is only visible in Safe Mode, unless you want to download a third-party tweak such as this one:Doug Knox - show Security tab in XP-home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Just logon as Administrator in Safe Mode. Add your own account to the folder's ACE in the Security tab.Or take ownership totally:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;308421 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernelcored Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 you might want to take a look at this :http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810881&sd=RMVPSummary : When you try to open a folder in Microsoft Windows XP, you may receive the following error message, where Folder is the name of the folder that you cannot open:Folder is not accessible. Access is denied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rssfed23 Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 Thanks for all your help guys.I started in safe mode and bingo, there was the security bit, so i just re-took ownership then re-set the permissions.Thanks,Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 In XP-home the Security tab is only visible in Safe Mode, unless you want to download a third-party tweak such as this one:Doug Knox - show Security tab in XP-homeanyone know anything about this, i did this on my Windows XP Home and it works perfect, I'm the only user on my comp but just like having features that i'm "not supposed to" have.worked flawlessly, but was thinking about lookin more into it or see if i can make it unattended lol.. also need to make sure it doesn't screw up anything else.. so i guess my live system is more of a test system lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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