Not accessible Access Denied

[tacoeater]

Trying to slave a hard drive from another WinXP system in my own computer in order to burn files to CD. I want to copy files from a sub folder created under Documents and Settings. The folder name is GM1 (customer's initials).
When I try to open it in explorer (my computer) I get this:

F:\Documents and Settings\GM1 is not accessible

Access is denied.

What has locked this and is there a way around this?

The machine the drive came out of no longer exists.
Please advise.
Alan

[andyms18a]

try this http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

[obenton]

Have you tried going in as a user who has Administrative privileges?

[tacoeater]

thanks obenton but i said two things in my original question that rule that out:

1]
running drive containing that folder as a slave to my system drive....you can only do that to the active system drive (XP on my C drive)

2]
the computer from which that drive with the folder i needed to access no longer exists, dead, kaput, trashed, fried, so i cannot run as administrator anything to do with that drive i think?

[andyms18a]

you nead to take control of the folder or make a new admin account on your computer with the same user name and password as was on the old computer

[TwoRails]

Originally posted by tacoeater thanks obenton but i said two things in my original question that rule that out:

Never tried what you are trying to do, but you haven't given any clues to what you actually tried or not... have you tried going in as Admin as mentioned by obenton ??

[DougL]

Whats it looking like in computer management? sometimes you have to reactivate/initialise or import foreign disks depending on how it was set up on the original computer.

Doug

[tacoeater]

nothing has worked yet but i am going to try andyms18a's suggestion about setting up account with same user name and password as the old computer......and dougL, sounds good but we don't always know (customer usually doesn't know either) how things were set up on original computer. thanks guys for all the ideas. learning experience here,
alan

[wolfie27]

Does booting into safe mode and logging into the admin account still create the same problem?

[Statica]

You will have to take auditing or ownership controls of the drive and folders through the advanced permissions.

[tacoeater]

yes wolfie27, same problem in safe mode
thanks statica, i'll try it