My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and now want
to recover the data from it.

I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports on my
new machine.

There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into and have
recovered everything.

The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I try I get
the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my documents is not
accessible Access is denied.

I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new machine -
still denied

Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.

Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

David

dirtydavid wrote:
> My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and
> now want to recover the data from it.
>
> I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports
> on my new machine.
>
> There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into
> and have recovered everything.
>
> The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I
> try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my
> documents is not accessible Access is denied.
>
> I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new
> machine - still denied
>
> Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Thanks Daave, perfect result.



"Daave" wrote:

> dirtydavid wrote:
> > My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and
> > now want to recover the data from it.
> >
> > I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports
> > on my new machine.
> >
> > There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into
> > and have recovered everything.
> >
> > The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I
> > try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my
> > documents is not accessible Access is denied.
> >
> > I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new
> > machine - still denied
> >
> > Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?
>
> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
>
>
>

YW. Glad it worked.

dirtydavid wrote:
> Thanks Daave, perfect result.
>
>
>
> "Daave" wrote:
>
>> dirtydavid wrote:
>>> My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and
>>> now want to recover the data from it.
>>>
>>> I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports
>>> on my new machine.
>>>
>>> There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into
>>> and have recovered everything.
>>>
>>> The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I
>>> try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my
>>> documents is not accessible Access is denied.
>>>
>>> I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new
>>> machine - still denied
>>>
>>> Booted from the hard drive, still access denied.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how to get past this please?
>>
>> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421