Hi Scleros , The drive was set as private on my PC ,it was a secondary drive D I think , and was then colored green I think when the icon appeared on "my Computer ", I was running XP . The PC itself had a major power supply failure that fried both the power supply and a large part of my mother board . I bought a new PC and removed the hard drives .When I bought and external caddy and connected it to my new PC hard drive "C " was totally wrecked and was dead , hard drive "D" still showed all my folders and individual jpeg icons within them with the file sizes of the original photos but won't allow me to open them as it says I don't have permission . I need to know if there is some software or method of changing the permissions on the drive to allow me to access the contents . As I say I have hundreds of family photos on the drive , I thought by backing them up on a separate drive (D) they would be safe if anything happened to the original drive (C) . I was only partly right as they are still there , just not available to me unless I am will to pay hundreds of £ ' s to have them professionally recovered . I now have a laptop running windows 7 , and also an iMac running OS X 10.6.7 in case recovery is dependent on a specific OS.
Many thanks for your quick response , Willie ( locutus59 )
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