Hello everyone ! Im kind of in a pickle here! So i have an old Win. Xp hard drive that will not boot but i can how ever view all the files and folders on the drive from window 7 !. Now evertime i try listening to my old music or looking at old photos of friends and i i get an error message saying Access Denied!. I have taken contorle of everything on the win 7 side but i cant seem to get the drive to boot into xp . Is there a way to get access to all the photos and music from just using my computer root systems or something ? 1 person got this answerI do too

You can't boot into XP from that old hard drive. When you say that you've "taken control of everything on the win 7 side [sic]" do you mean that you took ownership of the XP drive? If not, that's what I'd do.Check the permissions of the file or folder the file is saved in and take ownership: 1. Right-click the file or folder, and then click Properties.2. Click the Security tab.3. Under Group or user names, click your name to see the permissions you have.To take ownership of a folder:1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.2. Click the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.3. Click Edit. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.4. Click the name of the person you want to give ownership to.5. If you want that person to be the owner of files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.6. Click OKIf that doesn't work for you, then I would probably do it quick/dirty by booting the computer with a Linux Live distro (either from CD or USB thumb drive) and copy the XP data files to an external hard drive. Linux will not honor Windows permissions. If you want to keep this data on the old drive, I'd format that drive from Windows 7 and then copy the data to it. If you don't plan on keeping the old drive, you would just copy the backed up data to the appropriate folders in your Windows 7 user directory (Music, Documents, etc.).MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

OMG THANK YOU ! haha i could have sworn i did that but i guess not ! your a life saver Thanks again ! this website ROCKS!

I'm delighted to hear that worked for you. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!