How to access old HD's

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » October 27th, 2009, 22:53

I brokedown and bought a nice SATA 500gb HD and installed it in my current pc that had mirrored ATA133 HDs.

XP install went flawlessly on the new drive (except the BootSector Write! Virus Y/N? and I had to choose Y to proceed), but I get an "access denied" when I try to go to my old user account on the old drives under documents and settings.

Is it because I had a password for the logon and therefore just need to remove the pw or is it something else ?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 27th, 2009, 23:03

You need to take ownership of the old folders

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 27th, 2009, 23:11

Quite why it can't ask for authorisation I don't know. I might be authorised, it doesn't know.

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » October 28th, 2009, 1:09

TY...although, accidentally, I ended up booting up from the old drives so I just "un-privated" the user.