Running:
OS- XP Home
HD- Unsure, but will check if needed
So here's what happened:
While playing a game on my computer, my old mobo decided to fail. Everything went black and I had to get a new mobo. No problem. I went and got another mobo. When I'd tried to hook up my HD to the new board, it could not start windows. Someone advised me windows was stuck in a loop because the drivers for the old mobo were still on the drive, even though I had switched over to a dual core mobo.
I went and got a small HD to hold my OS on and hooked my old HD up as a slave. The HD works fine, doesn't seem to have been fried or anything.
My Problem:
Before my old mobo went out, I had my admin files set as private. This means I am currently locked out of my admin folder, thus unable to acess my old data, some of it pictures. I realize I should have backed the data up before, but I did as many do and forgot to.
I can not go and get the same mobo as I had before to put my HD on, because lo and behold, it has been taken off the market for the very reason it failed on me and I had no warentee. (I usually add my own parts, which voids such things)
I know my data still exists in the folder I can't acess, because I have seen it's names listed in a Avast! scan when I was running it, but even so, the folder says it is empty, and when I click on it, it denies me acess since, as I stated before, I had my files set as private.
Is there a way I can recover the date, like a progam I use, or is it too late?
