Recovering data from a previous installation of Windows XP

Bainzy · Post by **Bainzy** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:36 am

Finally got my PC fixed (new motherboard and thus new hard drive to do the job), and I'm wanting to transfer all my old documents from my previous xp home installation from my old hard drive onto the brand new hard drive I got for the new motherboard installation. The previous hard drive is set up as a slave drive, ready for the documents to be copied and pasted onto the new one. How do I access the files? I'm getting blocked because I was the administrator on the previous installation.

This installation is also XP Home SP2 by the way.

Guitar Adjuster · Post by **Guitar Adjuster** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:38 pm

Oooooo, now we know why you haven't been around lately. No computer! I have no idea, you need to talk to Bashcoder he is the computer whiz around here.

Bainzy · Post by **Bainzy** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:15 pm

No worries - sorted it. Managed to change the file permissions by booting up in Safe Mode, so I now have 680Gb storage space too.