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    Jul 30, 2009, 09:40 AM
    XP Home Doc's Settings access denied
    I've hooked up a crashed XP Home disk to me XP Pro PC to try to recover some data, but all I get us access denied. I've gone through the normal turn off simple shareing etc to try to take ownership, but can#t get the Secuiruty Tab up in properties for this ffolder. It appears for all othe folders. Any ideas?
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    Sep 4, 2009, 07:20 AM

    Use a Live CD Linux distro like Knoppix. Linux can easily mount NTFS file systems and don't care about any Windows based file permissions.
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    Sep 4, 2009, 07:31 AM
    Here are some options: External hard drive file access denied?
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