From: graham.me@btinternet.com   
      
   Managed to sort!   
      
      
   "G"  wrote in message   
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   >I had a major problem with XP yesterday and couldn't recover so had to   
   >reinstall.   
   >   
   > I decided to install a new hard drive put XP on it and then connect my old   
   > hard drive as a slave, by doing this I though I could just copy over   
   > information from my old hard drive to my new one such a my documents etc   
   > but when I click on my name in Documents and Settings and then my   
   > documents it says access denied.  I did have to log in on my old setup so   
   > assume this is something to do with it but how do I access my old hard   
   > drives documents and stop it saying access denied? How can this old slave   
   > drive be protected, is my new version of windows on my new drive doing   
   > this?   
   >   
   > One more thing please, I use Outlook Express and was hoping I would   
   > recover at least my email address book and copy it over but where is it   
   > kept? I also have loads of 'saved' emails is there anyway I can copy these   
   > over to outlook Express on my new drive?  I tried running OE from my old   
   > drive but it just opens up the newly installed version for some reason?   
   >   
   > Guys I am pulling my hair out here, I guess many of you know what a   
   > nightmare a new install is and I was so hoping to recover my old documents   
   > by doing this.   
   >   
   > Any help would be really appreciated.   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   >   
   > Graham.   
   >   
   > P.S. I have cross posted this to two other groups, sorry but I am   
   > desperate for help to get into my old documents.   
   >   
   > P.P.S How do I turn off the annoying error bleep coming from my PC base,   
   > it didn't do it before?   
   >   
      
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