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I recently purchased a new computer, but i had my old hardrive put in to the new tower so i have two hardrives C+F. I can acess F (my old drive) but dont seem to be able to retrieve my old work and music, but i can get in to program files. The F drive is full so the work is there but i dont know how to get to it.
On the old hardrive, i was using 2000NT and am now using XP pro. Can anyone help??
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:40:39
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Sounds like the old hard drive was formatted to NTFS and the new drive is formatted to FAT32. If you go to my computer, right-click on the drive and select properties, it'll tell you.
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:45:58
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Shit. Beat me to it.
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:51:24
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Well, he can access his program files so thats not it.
Do the following:
Control Panel - Folder Options - View - Uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing"
Then right click the folder(s) you can't access and click properties.
Security - Advanced - Owner
I forgot the rest, but there should be a prompt or something telling you what to do.
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Posted: 2005-04-01 23:49:52
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Could be that, but you can still see files on a NTFS volume with XP installed on a FAT32 volume, but you can't always do anything with them, which is how I understood the question.
Do you get an 'Access denied' error when you try to open / copy + paste the files?
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Posted: 2005-04-02 09:56:06
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both hardrives are ntfs, oh yeh and i dont get no errror messages, i can acess them but cant seem to find the files/folders.
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Posted: 2005-04-02 10:03:17
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Ahhh, right I understand now!
Sounds daft this, but have you tried using 'find files and folders' on the 'search' entry on the start menu?
I'm probably stating the obvious, but if you know the file type but can't remember the exact file names you can use a wildcard, e.g. if your after photos then you could search for *.jpg or *.bmp etc.
Just make sure that it's set to search either all drives and sub directories or just the old drive with subdirectories.
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Posted: 2005-04-02 10:30:55
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used the searches, ive search every file type there is!!! :? i dont know what to do.
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Posted: 2005-04-02 10:35:22
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Can you see those folders in DOS mode?
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Posted: 2005-04-02 10:38:00
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ive solved it more or less, got acess to some of my work, will start to follow the file paths, should get it working!!
anyway thanks boys for all the help, appreciate it.
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Posted: 2005-04-02 10:43:41
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