access denied to hard drive Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ApprenticeDave (48 messages posted) I’ve hooked up an IDE hard drive with a USB enclosure to my laptop in an effort to retrieve data. The motherboard on the system that the hard drive came out of is fried. The hard drive shows up fine on my laptop, but when I go to open a password protected folder, I get the “access denied message”. How do I gain access? I do have a password rest program, but it only works when the hard drive will boot up on a system. I’ve tried putting the hard drive into a system and booting from it but the hard drive is evidently corrupt and I get the blue screen of death. Is there a way to access the protected folder by hooking it up to my laptop in the way I’ve described? Thanks, David Responses to this message: re: access denied to hard drive (Spexx: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:30 am) All messages in this thread [show all] access denied to hard drive (ApprenticeDave: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 8:08 am) re: access denied to hard drive (Spexx: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 8:30 am) re: access denied to hard drive (ApprenticeDave: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 5:23 pm) re: access denied to hard drive (Spexx: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 5:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum