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February 07th, 2004 - 06:46 pm ET by Michael Baines | Report spam
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I recently installed XP Home over an old copy of XP Pro.
It warned me that some data loss might occour in the 'my
documents' directory but I didn't expect it on this
scale. I've lost a lot of setup data for programs like
Outlook which I managed to restore, however I seem to
have lost the entire contents of the actual 'my
documents' folder, about 2Gb in total.

I've located what I think was the old folder under pro
but when I try to access it I get an access denied error.
Is the any way to recover the data which is (probably)
still in this folder?
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#1 Doug Knox MS-MVP
February 07th, 2004 - 07:29 pm ET | Report spam
See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id08421


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"Michael Baines" wrote in message news:c9b301c3edd4$9504b830$
I recently installed XP Home over an old copy of XP Pro.
It warned me that some data loss might occour in the 'my
documents' directory but I didn't expect it on this
scale. I've lost a lot of setup data for programs like
Outlook which I managed to restore, however I seem to
have lost the entire contents of the actual 'my
documents' folder, about 2Gb in total.

I've located what I think was the old folder under pro
but when I try to access it I get an access denied error.
Is the any way to recover the data which is (probably)
still in this folder?


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