accessing documents in "My Documents"

Type taking ownership in help.

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"Arvind Ganesan" <arvind@uclid.com> wrote in message news:#a1JBD6SDHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> Hi,
>
> I have two machines at home, both running Windows XP. One of the machines
> just died - I called the hardware vendor's tech support - and they are
> sending me a new motherboard - which will take about 10 business days.
>
> In the meantime, I want to access data on the harddrive of the dead machine.
> I installed the harddrive as a slave harddrive in the working machine. I'm
> able to access all folders in the harddrive, except for the "My documents"
> folder, which I had setup to be private and non-shared among users. When I
> try to access that folder from my current working machine, I get the error
> message "Access is denied". I know the username and password associated
> with the user whose "My Documents" folder I am trying to access. Is there
> any way I can access that folder?
>
> On a side note, if I make the harddrive of my dead machine as the master
> drive of my working machine, what are the consequences? The two machines
> have radically different hardware (one was purchased recently, and one back
> in 1998) - will XP boot properly given that all the hardware has changed?
> Will there be any problems with the XP licensing given that the hardware has
> totally changed? Once my dead machine is alive again, will I have a problem
> putting this harddrive back in there as the master drive if I try to make it
> the master drive of my current working machine?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Arvind.
>
>

Thanks! That worked!

"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Type taking ownership in help.

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"Arvind Ganesan" <arvind@uclid.com> wrote in message
news:#a1JBD6SDHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> Hi,
>
> I have two machines at home, both running Windows XP. One of the machines
> just died - I called the hardware vendor's tech support - and they are
> sending me a new motherboard - which will take about 10 business days.
>
> In the meantime, I want to access data on the harddrive of the dead

machine.

> I installed the harddrive as a slave harddrive in the working machine.

I'm

> able to access all folders in the harddrive, except for the "My documents"
> folder, which I had setup to be private and non-shared among users. When

I

> try to access that folder from my current working machine, I get the error
> message "Access is denied". I know the username and password associated
> with the user whose "My Documents" folder I am trying to access. Is there
> any way I can access that folder?
>
> On a side note, if I make the harddrive of my dead machine as the master
> drive of my working machine, what are the consequences? The two machines
> have radically different hardware (one was purchased recently, and one

back

> in 1998) - will XP boot properly given that all the hardware has changed?
> Will there be any problems with the XP licensing given that the hardware

has

> totally changed? Once my dead machine is alive again, will I have a

problem

> putting this harddrive back in there as the master drive if I try to make

it

> the master drive of my current working machine?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Arvind.
>
>