Help accessing admin folder on slaved, non-booting hd

[mlxshadow]

My hard drive stopped booting my old install of XP, probably cause of my power supply, as that died a few days later. I've replaced the power supply, and slaved the old hard drive to a new hard drive running XP. After running a chkdsk /f on the old drive, i was able to access the files, but there's one folder I can't access.

I'm pretty sure I can't access the folder because it was personal files I believe I had set to admin-only access. I've tried to repair the windows installation on the old hard drive and run it again, and I've ran chkdsk and the error checking in the Properties/Tools, as well as tried to repair the installaion with my original XP cd.

After trying to repair the installation, the windows scrolling bar screen comes up and scrolls like 10 times until the system resets. That's as far as I've been able to get. I'd greatly appreciate any help. Thanks!

 

[CcXD]

In my own experience, when someone tries to "Repair" an old xp instalation, it ussually leaves out some critical files that might be corrupted. What I mean is, that it sometimes (not always) never repairs the problem in the first place. instead of waiting windows to boot normally try pressing F8 at starup, and choose to boot in safe mode.

Try this, use ur good xp drive on master, and old one on slave. Try accesing the old drive from a console (DOS like window), logging in with admin privileges from the good xp drive.

good luck =P

 

[fsbo]

Setup new drive as master, old drive as slave as mentioned above.

Boot from new drive, logon with administrator userid. Find the folder you want to access on the old drive (you may need to change folder options to show hidden and system files). Right click on the folder, select properties. There should be a security tab - as administrator you should be able to give yourself full rights to the folder and everything in it.