Ok, I recently had to reinstall windows due to my new RAID config. Now here is the prob: I backuped a folder of very important data, and in my old installation of WinXP, I set the folder to "make this folder private". Now I cannot access the folder at all. I've tried to go to the "owner" tab in the security settings and replaced ownership, but still not luck. I'm able to access the folder and see all my files inside, but i cannot open them. Everytime i try, it says "Access denied". Thank in advanced Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.81GHz air CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM 4-4-4-12 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU 640GB 320BG X 2 7200rpm HDD 36.7GB WD Raptor 2X DVD Driv

Try this: Take ownership of folder If you've already tried that, then try this: Unlocker Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!

Thx for the help, but it still to no avail. I forgot to mention that I accidently selected the wrong driver durring my windows installation. Durring 5% of the reformatting, I released it was the wrong drive and restarted my computer with the reset button. I think that may be why. Is there anyway in getting the data back? (Mind u it's still there, but it just always says access denied) Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.81GHz air CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM 4-4-4-12 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU 640GB 320BG X 2 7200rpm HDD 36.7GB WD Raptor 2X DVD Driv

This is where backing up very important data to a cdr or dvd is the first thing you should do. It saves all of the crap your going through now.

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Hmmm a bit tricky ei!! If you have partition magic. Install it on your new drive! then mount the old ntfs drive as a secondary master drive. Make sure that you boot on the new hard drive and mount that thing you want to recover as a secondary hard drive. Okay run Partition Magic (or any related partioning/conversion software) and try to convert the secondary hard drive to FAT32 file system... Give me a feedback please! Thank you!

Make a linux based boot CD, then you can access the data on your hard drive and move it to a backup drive, the "lock" will no longer be in place. This one allows you to move data to USB drives if you don't have a "slave" IDE hard drive in place: Ultimate boot disk Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!