Ok, here's something I haven't seen before. I have (2) 200gb Serial ATA HDD's on my computer. One of them has 3 different partitions on it; a (c:) partition for Windows XP Pro and programs, an (f:) partition for music etc.. and an (e:) partition that is used for miscellaneous files. The (e:) partition also has three seperate folders. Just the other day I went onto the (e:) partition to clean up the folders a bit and 2 out of the three folders says access denied. I went to try and run disk defrag and it says that it needs to run checkdisk so run checkdisk /f. Checkdisk does run on boot up, but says everything is fine. The HDD's are NTFS. Any suggestions?

Just login with an account that has administrator priveledges and you should be ablle to do what you want, including changing permissions of the folders. 98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.

I don't have any accounts set up for administrator privelegs as my computer just boots up as a general user all the time, but a friend suggested booting up in safe mode and then I will be able to access the folders. A new weird thing though, when I run disk defrag and check the status of the hdd, it says that the drive is healthy and it shows data is on there by saying 'x' percentage of space is used, but if I click on properties for the folders, it says '0 kb' of data.

You can go to Control Panel -> User Accounts and see if there is an Administrator account or if your account is a member of the Administrators or Power Users Group. Also right-click on the folders and go to Properties, then the Security tab. You can try and add permissions and view the permissions. If there is not an Administrators account on the machine or you ID is not in the Administrators Group, it is not good. If there is an Administrator account, change the way users logon to Classic and try to log in as Administrator. Try a blank password or use the word password as the password. Is this a store-bought machine? Maybe whoever made it would know about the admin password, which should be changed by the owner. 98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.