get my files back?

Question

i had a windows xp os on my pc somehow some files were deleted so i couldnt open windows anymore. so i installed windows on another hard drive without deleting the previos windows. my problem is that i cant enter "my documents" in the previous windows cause i was an adinistrator and it tells me "access denied" so how can i overcome this and get all my files from my documents back..
thanks a lot for ur help

Answer 1

When you installed Windows on the separate partition and then created an account with Administrator priveleges, the security identifier for that new account, SAM, is different than the Administrator account on the old Windows installation. So, Windows considers each a separate account and thus you are locked out. You need to enter the password for the old account to gain access, but because you installed it this way you are not provided with a password dialog box.



What you should have done is put that hard drive as slave on a different computer, and then browsed to the files and copied them to the new drive. When you place a hard drive as slave, it becomes an object owned by the Master drive, and thus access is allowed.



This type of task requires a great deal of technical experiance. I suggest you join a Windows Newsgroup, such as Windows XP Security and Administration. It is free to join, and once you do you can ask somebody to walk you through the steps to allow access to those files.



Here is a link to that group, but there are others as well, and it would be a good idea to locate one which meets this subject best. If you join one, you have joined all of these Technet Discussion Groups, so, you can easily ask your question at this one, and then ask if it is the correct group for this subject, and one of the experts there will let you know if it is, and if not, s/he will direct you to the correct group.



http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin



I am not an expert, but do have a moderate level of technical knowledge. I can build and maintain my own computers, run servers, etc, but I do not consider myself to be any type of expert. Thus, when I find an issue here that is beyond the scope of this group, I try to point the member in the right direction for assistance.



Please note that those who help less experienced users in these groups are experts in their own fields, and often if one walked into their offices would be charged a great deal of money for these same types of assistance, offered for free in the Usenet Groups. It is a wonderful way to receive quality help free of charge.



Keep in mind that everyone who assists others are doing so on their own time. When you ask a question please provide all the details of the issue at hand, including the OS, other hardware, all the steps taken thus far, and what exactly lead up to the issue and any error messages received. These kind folks can sometimes be a bit testy if group members don't provide clarified information, or if they have not taken basic steps to resolve the issue on their own. If one gets testy with you don't get testy back because if you do they may refuse to respond to further requests for help. I know that sounds a bit unfair, but consider what you get for free! lol



I hope you are able to retrieve your data, please have a nice day.

Answer 2

When you delete a file from your computer (and is common to every type of PC), that file doesn't "go away." Rather, to save wear and tear on your hard drive and to simplify the operation, your computer just eliminates the record of where the file began.

Think of your PC as containing a giant "shopping list" of all the files on its hard drive. Delete the canned peaches off that shopping list and the store doesn't actually get rid of the peaches. It just "forgets" that they are there. The space allocated to the peaches remains there until the store needs the space for something else.

There's good and bad in this. The good is that if you accidentally delete something you have a good chance of being able to get it back. The bad: So can anyone else.

These deleted files aren't accessible via Windows, but data recovery software like File Scavenger can quickly recover most recently-deleted data from your PC as if it had never been deleted at all. If you're sure you want to delete those files for good so programs like this won't work, there's plenty of software for that too. I often recommend BCWipe, which lets you permanently wipe only the free space on your hard drive while leaving the non-deleted files intact by overwriting those deleted files with lots of random data so it can't be recovered. Other software like Kill Disk does the same thing to the entire hard drive, rather than just the blank space, leaving an entirely empty, unrecoverable disk when you're done

While BCWipe is something you run periodically, there's also software to let you do this on the fly, essentially replacing the recycle bin with the equivalent of a paper shredder that wipes any file you delete for good. If you install one, tread with caution: Once you delete something, even by mistake, there's no going back. Simple File Shredder is a good (and free) choice to check out.

If you're accident-prone, there's software that goes the other way too, putting extra safeguards on deleted files and making it easier to recover mistakenly deleted data. Check out Norton SystemWorks, which includes a "Protected Recycle Bin."

Answer 3

It would take a bit of work and a lot of time to describe how to gain access to those files. I would suggest that it would be easier to try and repair your previous Windows envrionment. Have you tried that? Here is a step by step on how to do that:



http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Answer 4

If you are an administrator on the new install, right click the other drive, in security select take ownership and select that permissions be inheritted by the folders..

Answer 5

Boot using Linux Live CD, mount Windows using:

mkdir /dev/windows

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /dev/windows



And backup your files.



I recommend you to use Fedora Live CD:

http://fedoraproject.org/

Answer 6

I would suggest that you try to do a System Restore if you're able to, though I'm not sure if it will get your files back.



Good luck and I hope I helped you!

Answer 7

you prefer to do no longer something yet shop the record with .pdf extension thats all. like say you prefer to transform a international record call into PDF record. what you prefer to do is first open the record and choose record-saveAs. then you definately purely replace the record extension as .pdf. thats all

Answer 8

Google

Taking ownership of files and folders

FIRST you have to disable "simple file sharing"

And there you go.

Enjoy,

Drew

Answer 9

You are in trouble mn, I don;t know sorry