Hello,

I have run into a big problem that I hope someone can help me with this? My old C drive one day would not boot up windows for some reason? It displayed "bad boot sector id" or something like that?

What I did was to purchase and install another HD and set my ole C drive as a slave. I reinstalled Windows XP Home onto the new drive and everything is working fine. I then went to my old C drive looking for the "My Documents" folder so I could copy the contents into the new drive and I cannot find it? I can see the old user folder but when I attempt to access it, it says F:\Documents ans Settings\user folder name is not accessible Access is denied?

Can anyone assist me with a way to get my old desktop, my documents and more importantly, my pictures off the old C drive?

Thanks,

Dave

You need to take ownership of the affected files/folders as your new account, even though it may have the same name, has a different serurity ID.
Try these for info: take ownership of folders - Google Search (http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=take+ownership+of+folders&meta=&btnG=Google+Search)

WOW! That completely fixed my problem. I can access everything! Thank you very much!!

Interesting that I can only access while in Safe mode? When I signed on normally I still got the same message? Sometimes when I want to make "administrator type" of changes, the PC responds with a message asking me to sign on as an administrator even though when I check user it shows me as an administrator?

Not to worry.
Once you have moved everything you need then simply format the drive, least this way you won't have any more permissions issues.