AntD Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi Over a month ago my PC just stopped working and would not restart at all.Even had a bloke come out to have a look, but he could not get it going.I now have a new hard drive with all the factory software tattooed on it including WinXP[PC World did this for me].I've connected the old HDD as a slave drive,but can't get XP to recognize it properly.The old HDD register as Drive G when I use XP from the new drive,but I can't get access to the data on the old drive.I've just now managed to retrieve a couple of jpeg files from the old drive with WinHex,but how do I actually get WinXP to recognize the drive??Any help mucho appreciated. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 does it show up in the bios? also have a look in disk management (right click my computer/manage then disk management is near the bottom of the left hand list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 i had this problem when i got a new PC. it was my security settings, it only affected the Documents & Settings, My Documents and any encrypted folders... I was lucky though as I could put the old disk in the old pc to move stuff onto the root of c: so i could pick it up on the new pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 With Windows XP you can turn the security settings so that you can change the permissions on files. If it's come from another system that had password protection Windows should have changed the permission so that only authorised users can view the files. Now that it is in a new system Windows can't validate you as an authorised user. You need to go into the security settings and replace the permissions on all folders and files. If this sounds like the problem you are experiencing let me know and I'll post some more info on how to actually do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntD Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 Thanx for the replies guys.I'm using the same PC,just the hard drive is new.The drive does not show up in disk management tools,but it shows up as Drive G in My Computer.When I want to access it Windows ask if I want to format it.Also in Proerties for Drive G it shows there is no data on it,however I have managed to recover a few jpegs off the old hard drive with WinHex,but I keep getting stuck...sheesh:drown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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