cant get to my documents

shackwrrrshackwrrr Lima, oh
edited April 2007 in Science & Tech
I have a harddrive here that I had when my computer crashed.(hardware failure) I bought a new computer and now I need to get the documents off of it but when I put the harddrive in and try to acess my documents it says access denied.

this harddrive should boot up but when I try it locks up at the xp screen and under safe mode it shows it freezing at mup.sys the xp cd I have wont work from a boot to repair so how else woulf I boot up?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    Two things:

    1) You absolutely cannot boot Windows from that hard drive on the new PC. The drive will have to be reformatted in order for that to happen.

    2) However, the access denied errors are easy: http://short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49241
  • shackwrrrshackwrrr Lima, oh
    edited April 2007
    nevermind what i said here I got it, I checked the other box to change ownership instead of adding myself.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    And can you now access the files? Just double checking. :)
  • shackwrrrshackwrrr Lima, oh
    edited April 2007
    yep thanks for the help.
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