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txcwboy   01-01-2007 at 04:27:15 AM

I just upgraded my pc completely.I can access the old hard drive but I cant get to the desktop of the old hard drive to get a folder with my work in it. It just says access denied. How can I access that folder ?

thanks

Dave

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edklite   01-01-2007 at 04:49:29 AM
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not quite clear what you mean? can you access any file on the old drive but not this particular one or you can't access any folders/files?

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txcwboy   01-01-2007 at 05:15:35 AM
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I can access the entire drive but when I go to Documents and Settings/dave ( my log on name) it wont allow me to access it.It says access denied. He is my problem I have a folder on my old pc desktop that had all my work files in it. I need to access that file to retrieve all the info from it. How can I access that folder from my new pc now that the old pc is just a hard drive plugged in to my system as the slave drive?

Dave

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edklite   01-01-2007 at 05:25:57 AM
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not sure why you getting that, if they are that important, I would just switch drives, boot of the old drive, save my files to a CD or something like that, the switch drives back and boot of the new drive and put the files in the new drive from the CD you saved them to.

I have done what you are doing before and never got this problem you have.

is this account an admin account you are logged in on?

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txcwboy   01-01-2007 at 05:31:30 AM
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I switched motherboards cpu and hard drives ( to sata2 from ide). So will it boot to the other ? I know switching all that stuff causes issues. I ll try it.

thanks

Dave

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edklite   01-01-2007 at 05:40:07 AM
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not sure if that is gonna boot to the new config or not to be honest so your call.

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pscowboy   01-02-2007 at 12:25:50 AM
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The old hd will not boot. Don't even try.

Follow the instructions on this fix below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

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txcwboy   01-02-2007 at 03:49:54 AM
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believe or not it booted and I was able to go save to another drive. Both motherboards were ECS so maybe they had some of the same drivers ??? I did have to load a few drivers but other than that it worked ok and Now I am back on the new stuff.

thanks

Dave

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edklite   01-02-2007 at 02:32:52 PM
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lol how about that http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9609/headbangernu4.gif good luck http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9609/headbangernu4.gifhttp://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9609/headbangernu4.gifhttp://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9609/headbangernu4.gif

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