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baxteras · September 5th, 2004, 04:30 AM

1) a friend of mine tried to connect his main hard drive to another pc just to copy some files. but he forgot to set the jumpers....
now both hard drives don't boot!
i took his hard drive and i saw that i can see its contents when i connect it as slave in my pc.
his hard drive is a maxtor 40gb. I tried "fixboot" but no luck.
then i downloaded PowerMax (maxtor's diagnostic tool) but it found no errors!

anyway, the hard drive still doesn't boot..
reinstalling windows (XP) won't fix the problem?
low level format is the only solution?

2) the second problem is this :
i can see my friend's hard disk as a slave , so i can make backup of his files!
but he also have some files on his desktop, that means that these files are inside "E:\documents and settings\MyFriendsName\"
but i cannot access this file -> "Access Denied"
do u know how can i bypass this to backup this folder's data?
(i found this article in microsoft's database but works only for windows XP pro, i haveXP home)
i remind that drive E: is the hard disk that doesn't boot!

thanx in advance guys..

September 5th, 2004, 04:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
baxteras Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 5	1)BOOT problem, 2)user's folder access problem 1) a friend of mine tried to connect his main hard drive to another pc just to copy some files. but he forgot to set the jumpers.... now both hard drives don't boot! i took his hard drive and i saw that i can see its contents when i connect it as slave in my pc. his hard drive is a maxtor 40gb. I tried "fixboot" but no luck. then i downloaded PowerMax (maxtor's diagnostic tool) but it found no errors! anyway, the hard drive still doesn't boot.. reinstalling windows (XP) won't fix the problem? low level format is the only solution? 2) the second problem is this : i can see my friend's hard disk as a slave , so i can make backup of his files! but he also have some files on his desktop, that means that these files are inside "E:\documents and settings\MyFriendsName\" but i cannot access this file -> "Access Denied" do u know how can i bypass this to backup this folder's data? (i found this article in microsoft's database but works only for windows XP pro, i haveXP home) i remind that drive E: is the hard disk that doesn't boot! thanx in advance guys.. Last edited by baxteras : September 5th, 2004 at 04:34 AM.