Access denied?

Priapus

Priapus

Priapus

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Afternoon Guys

I'm trying to recover some data off a 40Gb Seagate hard drive that had Windows XP Home on a NTFS partition. Trying to get data out of the my documents folder under a user. However windows keeps giving me a Access Denied error. Got the drive connected up as a slave on another pc..

Any ideas how I can get around this?

Many thanks! :D
 
I cant log into windows on that drive as the windows instalation/drive is failing and wont boot it. So this is why I connected it as a secondry slave drive to try get data off it...getting the access denied error every time i try get into documents on that drive..:(
 
You don't have to 'login' to the faulty drive at all. Just follow the instruction from that link.

1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
4. In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
5. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:
You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?

All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.
Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.
6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
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