got a hard drive problem need advise

_Jimlad_ · 26 May 2009 at 18:12

ok got a mates pc, no hd showing in the bios, took the drive out and plugged it into my vista pc using a caddy kit.

the drive pops up and i have so far grabbed loads of files from the c: drive. i need files from the documents folder. It tells me i don't have access which is correct, its an xp hard drive with no password, so taking ownership should resolve this in my experience. i take ownership and a few mins in i get a 'can't read a file error' and it stops the whole process, leaving me with no access to the documents folder.

The file I'm getting errors on is a temp file in the apps data folder, clearly i just need the documents, pictures and music files. anyone no a work around to bypass the ownership thing and just access what i can? i understand some files maybe corrucpt but it looks like plenty of them are not, just need access.

ideas welcome

rpstewart · 26 May 2009 at 18:18

It'll take a while longer but can you not just take ownership of the bits you need without cascading down every part of the tree?

_Jimlad_ · 26 May 2009 at 19:30

rpstewart said:
It'll take a while longer but can you not just take ownership of the bits you need without cascading down every part of the tree?

no won't let me access the owner documents and settings file and states it's 0 k in size. this is normal and does it on a slaved xp drive on vista until you take the ownership which normally works fine.

rpstewart · 26 May 2009 at 20:11

Yeah, but what I'm saying is don't take ownership of the whole thing in one go. You should be able to take ownership initially of the user's top level directory on it's own, then each of the My Documents, My Pictures etc paths. That way you can avoid setting the permissions on the temp files.

_Jimlad_ · 26 May 2009 at 22:56

rpstewart said:
Yeah, but what I'm saying is don't take ownership of the whole thing in one go. You should be able to take ownership initially of the user's top level directory on it's own, then each of the My Documents, My Pictures etc paths. That way you can avoid setting the permissions on the temp files.

i can't see how i do that ? it only lets me take ownership of the folder as i can't seem to access it

rpstewart · 27 May 2009 at 08:25

There should be a check box which determines if the ownership change is cascaded, just uncheck that.

_Jimlad_ · 28 May 2009 at 11:24

tried it on my main pc as a fitted 2nd drive and all was ok, the drive is damaged but readable, just was not liking it through the usb caddy