[Dave0458]

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

[Curlyben]

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

[Dave0458]

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?

[Curlyben]

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.