I have a second hard drive that developed boot issues a few months ago when it was my main using XP. I bought a new hard drive, and now have 7 64-bit running fine on it. I'm trying to pull a few things off that second drive that I failed to backup before making the transition (the sector failure was not expected). I hooked it up today, setting up as a secondary drive in my bios, and everything booted fine. I was able to get into the drive and plunder some. I tried to access the user subfolders, where the pictures I was hunting down were located, and it required that I change permissions. It started to do it, and in a moment of great timing, my power went out. When my power came back on, I booted up and it proceeded to run a disk check on the second drive. It went through thousands of files and said it was changing the "unrecognized permission" to the "default permission," or something like that. When 7 finally loaded up, the drive was recognized, but I now get access denied to every part of the drive. The only thing I've been able to do is to run the disk check on it from the administrator tools/disk management. When I do that, it first asks me to force a dismount of it, then runs the check fine. After I've done that, I've been able to see restore points from that disk, and even attempted to restore to a recent one. Unfortunately, when I rebooted, I still get access denied, and even before reboot I can't get any access to the disk. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot? Thanks.

google "taking ownship of files and folders"You would not be doing restoring here.

Yeah, I had tried a lot of the solutions that popped up, including the straightforward granting access, doing a regedit workaround someone suggested, and similar types of things. If I got to my command line, I can get access to the drive and see the files contained within, but I get "access denied" when I try to access it through windows explorer (or any other non-command line). Any suggestions?

I suspect that the disk part tool you used is not compatible with Windows 7. I suggest you backup your data to another hard drive, format and re-part the hard disk with "diskpart" tool in Windows 7. A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line UtilityArthur Xie - MSFT

It's the data I'm after. I don't care about the drive. I can't backup the data because I can't access the drive. The drive isn't partitioned, it was simply my old windows xp drive that developed a bad boot sector. If I could pull the rest of the data off, I'd be happy to reformat the drive. Any suggestions on getting access to the drive? The latest attempt: I booted using F8, and tried to get permissions there. Using the properties tab on the drive, I pulled up the sharing/permissions list. Every listing has full permission, as it shows that it has when I boot normal. Still, I can't access the drive because it says "access is denied."

Calrissian, Did you take ownership of the folder as I suggested??From your posting it does not sound as if you did (setting permissons is not the same thing)Hightlight a folder on the drive, rigth click it, select properties from the drop down, click the security tab, clcik the advancedtab, click owner, click edit, clcik your user name and put check the Replace owner on subcontainers and object, now apply.Do you have access to that folder now???? You should

Bubba, I had taken ownership. I found a workaround, so I figured I'd post it in case someone comes across this with a similar issue. I turned the dial on the UAC completely down (it was at its default setting). When I rebooted, I had full access to the drive. Don't know what it is about the UAC setting that interferes with this drive, but I found others talking about it, so it's not isolated to my computer. Anyway, I was able to pull the data off that I need. I might sit on it for a few weeks to make sure I have the data really off, then I might reformat the drive, unless I figure out how to make the drive work with the UAC back on. Thanks for the suggestions, all.

Ok have you enabled the administrator account?? if do so and use the administrator to take ownership and that should clear up you issue (I just did this same process last night to recover data from an old harddrive). and I did not have any issue with UAC.