Don't Tell Him Pike
4th Dec 2004, 23:28
Hi everyone, I'd appreciate any help you can give me with the following.
I've recently put Windows XP Home on my PC, and all was reasonably well. Did a bit of tinkering, but my e-mail stopped working. Tried a few bits and bobs with those restore points (or whatever they're called).
Anyway, decided, to reformat and reinstall, as there was only windows on the disk. I'd put the my documents folder on a second hard drive in the pc, theory being that if windows failed, I could reformat etc and all would be well.
Now for my mistake. I'd made the my documents folder "Private", on the original installation of XP, and the new installation of windows won't let me in (I'd give the computer the same name, and all my personal info during installation was the same as the original installation. That's why I (naively)didn't expect a problem). Keeps saying access denied. Have tried booting into safe mode and logging in as an administrator, but i've still not managed to find a way of un-privatising the folder. I'm sure there must be a way.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out of this without losing all my digital piccys. And yes, I have properly realised the advantage of backing up to removably media.
Cheers
DTHP
I've recently put Windows XP Home on my PC, and all was reasonably well. Did a bit of tinkering, but my e-mail stopped working. Tried a few bits and bobs with those restore points (or whatever they're called).
Anyway, decided, to reformat and reinstall, as there was only windows on the disk. I'd put the my documents folder on a second hard drive in the pc, theory being that if windows failed, I could reformat etc and all would be well.
Now for my mistake. I'd made the my documents folder "Private", on the original installation of XP, and the new installation of windows won't let me in (I'd give the computer the same name, and all my personal info during installation was the same as the original installation. That's why I (naively)didn't expect a problem). Keeps saying access denied. Have tried booting into safe mode and logging in as an administrator, but i've still not managed to find a way of un-privatising the folder. I'm sure there must be a way.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out of this without losing all my digital piccys. And yes, I have properly realised the advantage of backing up to removably media.
Cheers
DTHP