Tatious

Hey guys,

I have a problem which is pretty long winded, I'll try to explain as best I can (I am nowhere near a computer expert, so if anything doesnt make sense I'm sorry, also bear with me in any replies)

On Friday night I turned my computer on and after the initial start up page it showed an error stating a critical file is either missing or corrupt in windows/system32/config/windows, telling me to use the start up disc to repair.

I dont currently have a start up disc (having lost it during a move) so am trying to find a friend who has one.

I was told in the meantime by a number of people that I could take the main (master) hard drive (which had 1 user area, which was password protected) from that computer out and place it in another computer (the one i am currently using) as a secondary hard drive, allowing me to transfer any files i need over/back up if need be. Thats all fine, I've managed to sort out the jumper settings and I am now running that hard drive as a slave one fine.

Apart from one problem, I was unable to access f:\documents and settings\tatious (which of course houses a number of folders including my documents) I have now, through safe mode, given myself access privileges for that folder and I can access that folder and 3 other sub folders, but cant access "my documents, nethood, printhood, recent, start menu, templates, user data, windows" folders, it comes up "........ is not accessible, access denied."

And I cant seem to give privileges to these folders like I could to the main Tatious folder, can anyone give me any assistance on this?

linderman

try this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Tatious

Hey, thanks for the reply,will i be able to access this hard drive as normal when i put it back in to my original comp? (if i manage to repair, rahter than reinstall) or will I need to go in to safe mode on that computer and take ownership of it in the same way?

linderman

I would expect it to work strait up once it has returned to the original system