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Trouble accessing a slave drive..
Name: Striker3M Date: February 1, 2003 at 19:49:04 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 640 mb
Comment:
Greetings, I want to ask if anyone could help me tackle this problem: XP wouldn't boot up yesterday on my 30.0 gig hard drive and said it was missing an essential system file, /windows/system32/config/system. I tried repairing, to no avail. So I whipped out a new 80 gig and installed XP on that and put the 30 gig as a slave. I booted up with the XP on the 80 gig with no problem, and the old 30 gig with the messed up XP showed up on "My Computer". Problem is..once I tried to get into the username files of the old installation, windows gave me a message that said, "Access Denied." I think this is because I had passwords to my username in the XP installation on my 30 gig. Could anyone tell me how to access those files?? I have email, college stuff on there. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Name: Striker3M Date: February 1, 2003 at 19:53:53 Pacific
Reply:
I know all the username passwords too, if that helps...
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Response Number 2
Name: Paul H Date: February 2, 2003 at 06:43:47 Pacific
Reply:
You'll need to go to the advanced security properties of your slave drive and take ownership of the root folder. After doing so you should be able to access all folders/files.
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