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Terminator2000

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I just had my motherboard fried and so the computer repairman managed to rebuild the comp, meanwhile, I took out the hard drive with real important data out in case he wipes it out accidently or reformats it.

Now, I gave him the harddrive back and he re-installed it.

Problem now is, the data. ALL of the important data that was on my desktop thats locked in my Desktop Folder of my account is now inaccessible. Cannot be copied or duplicated or accessed.

I keep getting error messages.

Prior to the motherboard dying on me. The Desktop was locked out with a password by the Windows Operating System to keep the rest of the people out of it.

Now I can't seem to go into that folder that had all my files on the desktop.

Help?
 
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Terminator2000

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The computer repairmen told me that

you cant boot off the old HDD because its diff hardware.

the diff is its totally diff hardware so it uses diff drivers and all that crap so it wont boot. you will get BSOD and other errors and crap you wont even get into windows
 
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I don't quite understand. The data you want is on the hard drive that you have in the system?

What kind of errors are you getting when you try to access? Please be specific
Where are these file located? C:\documents and settings\username\........?
 
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Terminator2000

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Rigel. Here's the story.

The Motherboard died.

So the comp repairmen guy said. Why don't we just get a whole new kind of motherboard, much more updated motherboard.

So before I handed the comp to him. I took out the harddrive with all my important data in it to keep in case he accidently wiped it out or reformatted it.

(There's two other hard drives on it)

Then when he completed the system. I brought over the harddrive with all my important data on it for him to put into the system.

When we plugged in the harddrive (with all the important data). I tried to access my user folder that had all my files on the desktop and it gave me error messages. I'm not sure what the error message is. I'll have to ask the comp repairman what it is cause the weather's brutal and I can't go pick it up at the moment and he has the system.

So, when i asked him to copy and backup all the files in that hard drive. It wouldn't let him.
 
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Terminator2000

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asn: that's why you should boot into safe mode.

the comp repairman said that he'll try when he gets a chance.
 
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Win XP installation on Hardware does that.
Otherwise the Data HDD had to be installed on the system but not as boot drive but as a slave.
Then accessing the Data HDD could have been done.

But if the failed. then a LiveCD Linux ( Kanotix) would have saved or access the HDD with out a problem.

Now here is the trick because you changed the MB the HDD is useless without the same Hardware to save all the files.
Even with a video card you changed it before removing the old drivers( if you knew it was dying you would this but if it fail immidiately how you supposed to know) the video will now work.
 
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thirdtime said:
Huh??
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If you have Windows XP on a system and something fails. Let's say a MB. You buy a new one but not the same model or make and try to run it it won't run at all. You Have to reinstall the whole OS.
Let's just say you add a HD as a slave to get info but it is encrypted but not by the same windows OS it may not let you access the HDD or that folder.
Otherwise WXP is like a Gastapo. Very Picky.
I had a situation like that with the video card.
As for the encryption I stay away from them because I may forget the password which I have done so before.
 
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He never said it was encrypted, just that the XP operating system was password protected on the 'Welcome' screen on that hard drive.

He should be able to add that hard drive as a slave on another system and have access to the slave drive.
 
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thirdtime said:
He never said it was encrypted, just that the XP operating system was password protected on the 'Welcome' screen on that hard drive.

He should be able to add that hard drive as a slave on another system and have access to the slave drive.
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Then why can't he access them?

Terminator2000 said:
So, when i asked him to copy and backup all the files in that hard drive. It wouldn't let him.
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The reason you cannot switch motherboards and use the same drive is simply due to the IDE drivers. If you change the IDE drivers in device manager back to the Standard IDE drivers, before removing the drive and placing it in another PC, it will be bootable in the new system.
It is only because the original motherboard's chipset drivers have been applied to the OS on that drive, that it will not work on another motherboard.
Hiren's Boot Cd will recover those files for you.
 
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vavog

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Garrett's right. Likely security issue. Reset all security for the old drive, taking ownership with new administrator account. Properties->Sharing and Security->Advanced
 
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