Posted December 20, 200320 yr OK, I have an install of Windows XP on one hard drive (I'll call it HD1) and then I have another HD (HD2) that I've done a clean install of XP on. It is the master drive on the primary IDE channel and it's 1 and only partition is set to active (drive C). HD1 (the existing install; drive D) is the slave drive and I have it in here so I can get files off of it. However, I can't access a certain folder on HD1. I use windows explorer and go to "D:\Documents and Settings" but then I try to open my folder "\Andrew" I get access denied. What is going on? By the way, I am using the Admin account. There must be some way I can access this, and the reason as to why I'm only denied access on this folder is a puzzle.
December 20, 200320 yr Try creating a user on your second install called Andrew with the same password and logging in as it. ~ Simon "Yesterday upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, he must be from the CIA."
December 20, 200320 yr Author My current user on here is already Andrew... heh. But anyway, problem is solved. I booted to the other install (which the \Andrew folder belonged to) and went to the folder's properties and sharing tab, unchecked "make this private" or whatever. I just happened to come across it. I had forgotten it was there.
December 24, 200320 yr Author The HDs were in seperate machines, but I did a little swicthing around and now only 1 of those systems are active, and what I did was format one of them, and I kept the other one in here with my files on it so I can access them easily.
March 8, 200420 yr Hi there, I have a similar problem although my 'second' hard drive is from my laptop and is in an external HD case. My problem was I had, on my desktop pc, win98se on my C: drive and the laptop HD, in the external case, has winxp. The laptop drive was not accessable as it didn't show up in 'My Compter' so I installed winxp on the C: drive and now the laptop drive shows up, as D:, in 'My Compter. I am able to open it but like 'Andrew' am unable to access folders under my user ID on the laptop hard drive. How do I boot from the D: drive? :(
March 9, 200420 yr Unfortunately I can't help but I have sent a few PM's to some of the moderators of my tech support forum to see if they might be able to help. I can't promise they will help but I think they will probably at least look at the problem. Hang in there.
March 9, 200420 yr Have a look here: "How to take ownership of files in Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
