Denied Access

[teacx2]

I Got A Hard Drive Off Of A Friend And He Wants To Get Some Music Off It, But The One Folder With The Music Says Access Denied, But I Can get into all the other folders on the HDD!!! Help Please!

[Ned Seagoon]

Hi teacx2

Take a look at the properties of that folder. Also it might help if you could give us some details of the operating system you are using as well as the file system of the drive that you are trying to access. BF

[teacx2]

I Am Running XP Home and the file system is NTFS, im guessing the computer i got it out of is the same.

[Ned Seagoon]

Hi teacx2

I'm not sure on this one but have you tried logging on to the computer as administrator? Is it possible to access the folder now?

Also right click on that folder and select properties, take a look at all the supplied information and compare it to another folder that you can access.

Can you change the properties?

The other possibility is that this folder has been encrypted and without the key you will not be able to access it.

There is always a grey area here, in that we have no way of knowing if your possession of this is legitimate or not. If you have it legitimately then you should have been provided with the means to access it. BF

[degsy]

goto Help and Support and search for Take Ownership.

[bAdWaYz]

I believe that the direct link to that is HERE (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech) that is the step by step you are talking about degsy?

[degsy]

Yes it is