OK Don wrote:
If you want to get to your old files before trying the alternative
OS's, try this: In Vista, right click on the folder in question,
choose properties, then click the security tab. Near the bottom of the
window, click Advanced. Now click the Owner tab - click the Edit
button in the lower left. You'll be prompted by UAC - click continue.
Highlight the account you want to have control over the files, click
the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" check box, then click
OK. Click Yes i the box that pops up., then OK on the next box. "OK"
back out of the open windows. You should be able to access the files
now.
XP would likely give you the same results accessing the files on the
old drive - you are a "new me" to the OS - new SID, GUID, etc.
Thanks, I was editing the availability of the files to "everyone"
instead of making me the owner.
XP never did that to me in multiple hard drive changes. Whenever I
wanted to refresh XP, I'd put in a new C drive, run the system restore
disk on it, go through the whole "hello, new computer, my name is Mitch"
routine, and make my old drive the D or F drive. This was on IDE drives,
now my new drive is SATA and my old drive is IDE PATA.
I just found out my new dual core 64 bit cpu (Athlon 4800+) is really
old stuff from 2005. Wondering if I should return this thing and put a
new M/B, CPU and P/S in the eMachine.
I paid $300 for a cheap MB/CPU, $75 worth of RAM, $75 worth of HD,
$30-40 worth of Lightscribe DVD drive, and an operating system that
makes me insane. Probably just keep it, the parts are worth most of my
$300. I wonder how much CPU I can put on this Compaq/H-P motherboard,
probably limited to AMD products.
Mitch.
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