any 1 help? accessing a harddrive!

stu3y123 · 22 Jan 2006 at 14:08

i took my onld master hard drive out of my old system, put it in the new 1 but i cant access any of the documents! it says they are not accesible? how do i access them??

semi-pro waster · 22 Jan 2006 at 14:18

How have you got the drive set-up and exactly what does it say when you try to access the drive? Is it recognised in bios or Windows at all? If you haven't already I'd set-up the drive to be a slave to the primary drive and try again.

smids · 22 Jan 2006 at 16:39

If Access is Denied message, try Microsoft's KB810881.

stu3y123 · 22 Jan 2006 at 20:02

i can access the drive.. but i cant acess the file "my documents" thats on that drive. thats where all my things are stored.

stu3y123 · 22 Jan 2006 at 20:02

the drives set up as a slave, it used to be a master on a different PC

smids · 22 Jan 2006 at 20:26

smids said:
If Access is Denied message, try Microsoft's KB810881.

Look at this. You need to assume ownership of the folder.