Old WindowsXP drive in new system access problem.

[ktkendall]

Hello All:
I have my old drive that was my fully functional windows xp pro main C: boot drive in my new system now as just a secondary drive actually hooked to IDE3 as master which is one of the raid ports. I do not have raid enabled though, just using the ide port for this spare drive. New drive is up and fully functional on IDE 1 as master C: boot winXP pro drive so now I am just trying to access mydocuments on that old drive and it will not let me access the mydocuments folder under my user name folder on that old drive. I never specifically made them private or anything when the old drive was my main drive. At first I could not even access my old user name folder under documents and settings, but after playing around a bit and finally it allowed me to share that folder so now I can access my old user name folder but still not mydocuments under that old user name on the old drive. I went to disk management and converted it to a dynamic drive but that made no difference. Any ideas how to make the folder accessable???

[glc]

You have to log in with administrative privileges, and take ownership of the folder and files.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...308421&sd=tech

[ktkendall]

Thanks much GLC, I was beginning to lean towards having to disassemble and get that drive bootable again in my old machine to copy those files into a public folder. I did miss the part about unchecking , 'use simple file sharing", at first and was really getting frustrated because I was not gettting the security tab to come up, but as usual I skim too fast when I read and tend to miss important little details at times.
THANKS:
KK