My computer won't recognize me as the administrator called "owner" thus keeping me from the folders under the "owner" profile. Here's the short version.
(1) System registry corrupted and computer wouldn't boot. Took it to tech. He found a few bad sectors on HD and replaced it, AND transferred/saved two family users profile accounts & their files to a secondary slave HD on my machine. However, apparently he didn't get MINE because my user account was "password protected" and XP will not allow you to access, delete, copy, or even move protected folders. (I always kept my administrator user profile with a password.)
(2) I put the old "bad" HD (with the corrupted registry) into an older computer of mine (as the master HD). I couldn't get it to boot, so I called the tech who worked on the machine and he suggested that I reinstall Windows OVER the original corrupted XP in the same partition. (This prevented me from having to delete all files.) Note: The recovery console option wouldn't work, so I had to reinstall XP and it worked great. My original folder called "owner" is still sitting under Documents and Settings/users. So, the old HD is up and running, BUT I still cannot gain access to MY files. Before all of this mess, my original user account was called "owner" and that is how the folder appears under Documents and Settings/Users/Owner. During this reinstall XP setup, XP prompts me with the normal stuff....what I want to call the computer and what I want to call my administrator account, but tells me I can't call myself "owner" ....maybe because there was already a user folder called owner(?) So I named it Jim. I am the only administrator on the entire machine, so I should have access to everything, right. Once logged on as Jim, if I attempt to open the "owner" folder thru Win Explorer, I get the "access is denied - Make sure the folder is not in use or protected" popup. Crap!
(3) So I do what XP originally told me not to do and set up a new user/administrator account called "owner" using the same password as was originally required to access my folder, hoping that XP would automatically link to my old user folder "owner" with my new administrator ID called "owner". It wouldn't. When looking under users thru Win Explorer, ...my user name is showing up as "owner.jim". XP automatically added an extension called jim on the end of owner,... I guess because there was already an "owner" folder in place and it didn't want to duplicate. So, I still can't access that folder and all of the subfolders in it.
Anyhow, how can I get access to that "owner" folder. I KNOW THE PASSWORD and everything, I just can't get the machine to recognize that it is ME wanting access. FYI: The only way I know to open folders is thru Win Explorer or logging on as a user and gaining access to that particular users files. Unfortunately, I can't log on as "owner" as it will not allow me to establish a user profile called simply "owner".
Sorry so long winded, but that's the shortest way I could explain what happened and the steps already taken.
One last thing. I never ever encrypted any files or folders on my machine, so it can't be an encryption problem.
Anyone have any ideas?
(1) System registry corrupted and computer wouldn't boot. Took it to tech. He found a few bad sectors on HD and replaced it, AND transferred/saved two family users profile accounts & their files to a secondary slave HD on my machine. However, apparently he didn't get MINE because my user account was "password protected" and XP will not allow you to access, delete, copy, or even move protected folders. (I always kept my administrator user profile with a password.)
(2) I put the old "bad" HD (with the corrupted registry) into an older computer of mine (as the master HD). I couldn't get it to boot, so I called the tech who worked on the machine and he suggested that I reinstall Windows OVER the original corrupted XP in the same partition. (This prevented me from having to delete all files.) Note: The recovery console option wouldn't work, so I had to reinstall XP and it worked great. My original folder called "owner" is still sitting under Documents and Settings/users. So, the old HD is up and running, BUT I still cannot gain access to MY files. Before all of this mess, my original user account was called "owner" and that is how the folder appears under Documents and Settings/Users/Owner. During this reinstall XP setup, XP prompts me with the normal stuff....what I want to call the computer and what I want to call my administrator account, but tells me I can't call myself "owner" ....maybe because there was already a user folder called owner(?) So I named it Jim. I am the only administrator on the entire machine, so I should have access to everything, right. Once logged on as Jim, if I attempt to open the "owner" folder thru Win Explorer, I get the "access is denied - Make sure the folder is not in use or protected" popup. Crap!
(3) So I do what XP originally told me not to do and set up a new user/administrator account called "owner" using the same password as was originally required to access my folder, hoping that XP would automatically link to my old user folder "owner" with my new administrator ID called "owner". It wouldn't. When looking under users thru Win Explorer, ...my user name is showing up as "owner.jim". XP automatically added an extension called jim on the end of owner,... I guess because there was already an "owner" folder in place and it didn't want to duplicate. So, I still can't access that folder and all of the subfolders in it.
Anyhow, how can I get access to that "owner" folder. I KNOW THE PASSWORD and everything, I just can't get the machine to recognize that it is ME wanting access. FYI: The only way I know to open folders is thru Win Explorer or logging on as a user and gaining access to that particular users files. Unfortunately, I can't log on as "owner" as it will not allow me to establish a user profile called simply "owner".
Sorry so long winded, but that's the shortest way I could explain what happened and the steps already taken.
One last thing. I never ever encrypted any files or folders on my machine, so it can't be an encryption problem.
Anyone have any ideas?
It didn't work! I still get the same old "Access is Denied" popup window. Clicking right on the folder and trying to save onto the desktop yields "Cannot create or replace owner: Access is Denied. Make sure disk is not full or write protected and file is currently not in use." 
