Hi Experts,
I have a HDD with Windows 7 Beta on it. I removed it from its home PC because the registry became corrupt. It is now on another PC. After many hours of trying to repair it, It was agreed on EE that it would be best to remove it to another PC and retrieve my files. The disk is a 80GB SATA drive. The drive shows 66GB of used space. That is exactly correct. Part of that is 1 or 2 older back ups. Here is my problem.
In the new PC Most of the folders are faded or come show as empty. The most common message I get is_ - - -"Appdata\don\example\loca
lapps\data
\example\ is not accessible." "Access is denied."
Documents and settings is faded and empty.----or is it? Access is denied all over this drive or folders are empty. ( that path was just an example)
I really do not know if it matters because I cannot find ANY of the files and folders I need and if I do they are partially or completely empty. But the 66GB is correct. That is what it should be. They are really important items that I backed up. And I was in the process of updating the back ups when the PC decided not to ever boot again.
Part of that 66GB should be my older backed-up files. They were also on a separate partitition that is missing. ( yes I know --NOT on the same drive) I have one question to ask with many little parts. So then where is 66GB of my files? but more importantly, how can I get them back? Do I need elevated privileges here? I just have not found one single file that I need. I would estimate that I have 40GB of stuff that I need and cannot find. Lots of them are invaluable .EXE files to expensive apps and programs. One desktop folder held 25GB of ISO files. That is what I am after. There are 3 files in that folder. That is what I mean. Where the - - - - - - are rest of them?
I now have the drive plugged into a PC running Windows XP Professional 64 bit. I do not know what to do.
I guess the real question simply is: How do I find and retrieve my files and folders?
Thank you in advance.
donnie616
