Hello Jay,

What Ed said! Also, you might want to take the drive out, put it in a USB tray and recover your files from another machine. Once the ACL gets whacked it is hard to recover from, but you should be able to read from an administrator account, either locally, or when the drive is plugged into another machine.

If you are having the plain Access Denied issue, a drive recovery tool won't help unless you are actually having read or data corruption issues.... And this is why I never store my important files on my profile....

Good luck and keep us posted,



>>Even a worse scenario now. In switching the hard drives around, I somehow blew away some XP startup files on MY drive. The only thing I could do was reinstall XP (wouldn't do a repair or recover) and now the original My Documents is not there. >:-( In the Documents and settings, there is a "Jay Johengen" and a "Jay Johengen.JAY" where "JAY" is the name of my computer. I'm thinking I'm ok, because the files must be under the original "Jay Johengen" directory, but Access Denied is all I get, no matter how I try to access it. Double >:-( I know the files are there somewhere, but they do not exist as far as XP or DOS are concerned. I'm trying a file recovery tool in a bit. Give my software issues all day long, but I hate hardware.
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>
>Hi Jay,
>I don't know if this is related but I had a lot of trouble with XP accounts. To make a long story short, after spending hours on the phone with MS Tech Support India I ended up with:
>Documents and Settings
>->Administrator
>->Administrator.EDPECYNA
>->ed
>->LocalService
>->LocalService.NT AUTHORITY
>->NetworkService
>->NetworkService.NT AUTHORITY
>->user
>
>What a mess! Occasionally, I will get "locked out", I will have to reboot, log in as Administrator, unlock my "user" account, logoff, and log in under my regular account.
>Do you have an actual "Administrator" account as opposed to Jay Johengen account with administrator access?
>
>Ed