need fix b4 boyfriend techie finds out and goes ballistic

Nykyria

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Jan 12, 2014
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I cant pull pic up. I literally have generic thumbnails where pictures used to be. clicking on pic produces a blank screen in 'picture viewer'...


BACKGROUND:
My WD HDD with winxp os became backup to another HDD that had win 7 32bit os. (2 HDD one computer both are sata) Running win7 I moved some files from the win 7 HDD to the winxp HDD, but in order to do this I had to take ownership. I have my new build together with the win7 harddrive. So my boyfriends XP HDD is back in business, however I cant view ANY of the orig pictures on the drive. Is there a way to regain ownership of these files through XP without reformatting? Please help before boyfriend techie flips out...