Unable To Access Old HD - Possible To Recover Information?
Mar 8, 2005
microsofts website states that on your old machine if you un-install the drive before removing it, you should then be able to move it over to the new computer and everything should be dandy, now unfortunatly ive set up the new computer and the old computer isnt working for some reason and im not sure what happend along the way but thats another matter altogether.
my question is, is it possible for me to recover the information on this disk? xp is currently asking me to format the disk whenever i try to access it.
PartitionMagic and DiskManagement in XP both show the drive and its full amount of space but unfortunatly it doenst show up any partitions, it is however listed in PartitionMagic as a "dynamic disk".
I would like to be able to log access to my folders from the network. That is, I want to know when an administrator has accessed my drive. I have private/confidential information on my PC and do not want administrators to be able to access it, unless I give explicit permission.
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The System Volume Information Folders contain your System Restore points. You can delete all or just the oldest ones manually if you like (but they must be sequential). These folders are hidden system folders on each drive. In order to gain access, follow the directions below depending on your version of XP and File System:Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition Using the FAT32 File System Click Start , and then click My Computer On the Tools menu, click Folder Options On the View tab, click Show hidden files and foldersClear the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) check box Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the change Click OK Double-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it Windows XP Professional Using the NTFS File System on a Domain Click Start , and then click My Computer On the Tools menu, click Folder Options. On the View tab, click Show hidden filesand folders Clear the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) check boxClick Yes when you are prompted to confirm the change Click OK Right-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder, and then click Sharing and Security Click the Security tab Click Add , and then type the name of the user to whom you want to give access to the folder. Choose the account location if appropriate (either local or from the domain). Typically, this is the account with which you are logged on. Click OK , and then click OK Double-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it Windows XP Professional using the NTFS File System on a Workgroup Click Start, and then click My Computer On the Tools menu, click Folder Options On the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders Clear the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) check box.
Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the change Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box Click OK Right-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder, and then click Sharing and Security Click the Security tab Click Add , and then type the name of the user to whom you want to give access to the folder. Typically, this is the account with which you are logged on. Click OK , and then click OK Double-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it Windows XP Home Edition Using the NTFS File System In Windows XP Home Edition with the NTFS file system, you must use the Cacls tool, which is a command-line tool to display or modify file or folder access control lists (ACLs) Click Start , click Run , type cmd , and then click OK Make sure that you are in the root folder of the partition for which you want to gain access to the System Volume Information folder. For example, to gain access the the C:System Volume Information folder, make sure that you are in the root folder of drive C (at a "C:" prompt). To get to the root of any partition, make sure you are in that partition and then type "cd" (without the quotation marks).Type the following line, and then press ENTER: cacls " driveletter :System Volume Information" /E /G username :F Make sure to type the quotation marks as indicated. Also, if your user name contains a space you'll need to put your username in quotes. This command adds the specified user to the folder with Full Control permissionsDouble-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it If you need to remove the permissions after troubleshooting, type the following line at a command prompt: cacls " driveletter :System Volume Information" /E /R username This command removes all permissions for the specified user.
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