Problems accessing files on 2nd Hard Drive

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Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
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How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
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"SteveNaha" wrote:

| I have a new Dell computer. I installed the hard drive from my old Dell
| computer as a secondary slave drive. I am unable to access the document and
| settings folder on the old drive for a specific user because that user was
| password protected on the old computer. How can I gain access to those
| files? The old computer is not bootable anymore or I would reinstall the
| hard drive back into the old machine to retrieve them. I'm tried creating
| that same user on the new machine with the same password on the old machine,
| but it still won't access. Any suggestions?

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