Access denied to my old xp harddrive?

[jsteph]

Hi all,
In windows 7, I have my old xp harddrive visible in windows explorer but it says access denied.

I *must* retain boot-ability because I will occasionally boot to this drive. So I'm wary of the advice I've heard that I should 'take ownership' of this drive. I'm afraid then if I have windows 7 user take ownership, then when I try to boot to xp it will be 'access denied' there too.

So why is it that I can't simply hook up a drive and see it in windows 7? I've had dozens of xp drives from other machines that I just tether up and I can access them.

I never, ever set any sort of data encryptions or other security measures other than standard windows xp security, and other xp installations can acccess this drive.
thanks for any help,
--JIm

 

[jsteph]

It works now, unexplainably after another reboot I was simply able to access it.

 

[danmoss]

Not sure if this is going to be much help, but I had a very similar problem to this with an external drive that I'd backed up my data onto.
I had just dumped the files I wanted to keep onto the drive before I upgraded rather than using the tool that came with Windows 7.

Once the upgrade was complete, I didn't get access denied but I did need to give the administrator thumbs up to everything I did to the files.

After much fooling around with security settings, it turned out that it was a permissions problem. Though the account I was using was an administrator, the Windows 7 groups and users didn't actually have any permissions to the files. Once I added myself to everything with full control, the problem stopped.

 

[jsteph]

danmoss,
I think that's what my issue may have been--I had given permissions for the drive to my windows7 user, but at first it still didn't allow it--I think it wasn't until after I rebooted (or possibly closed windows explorer and reopened) that I was able to see it.

I just can't remember the chronology (Did I reboot without trying to close/reopen windows explorer or did I try explorer first then reboot...I'm not sure) but either way I was able to access the drives at some point after I set permissions.
--Jim