WINDOWS XP EMERGENCY

[bagaki]

I just installed winXP pro - i was using windows 2000 pro. here is the deal, i have 3 harddrives, i cannot access the two that are not the boot drive. i formated when i installed XP (used NTFS - all drives are NTFS). here is what i need to know. when i used win2k, after i would format, i could not access the drives (like now), but all i had to do was change the permissions on the drives and give myself access. i cant seem to find where i can do this in XP. i have searched and searched. if anyone can help, I WILL BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL. i have one harddrive that contant all of my IMPORTANT information that i backed up before i installed XP. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!

thanks

 

[yazman]

right click the drives and click sharing and just enable "simple file sharing" and you
won't have to use the wizard with XP. I believe there is option in Folder options to
enable simple (read 2k like sharing) or just go through admin tools and in group policy (I think)
you should be able to do the same thing. Actually I'm having some trouble booting to my XP cos
I just installed 2k pro and 2k server on different partitions. I'll let you know when I figure it out.

Edit: Damn spelling mistakes.

 

[bagaki]

sharing is not an option when i right click. if i right click and goto properties, i get the little pie chart thing, but it says - used space 0 bytes, free space 0 bytes, type local disk, file system RAW???

this is under the "general" tab, the only other 2 tabs i get are tools and hardware.

i cant run any of the tools, but all of my harddrive and removable storage devices are listed in hardware.

if i goto the "hardware" tab, then click on the drive and click properties, then i goto the "volumes" tab. i then click "populate" and my partitions on one of my 3 drives appear. (the only drive that i have partitions on, and it happens to be my boot drive, although, i have tried this on the other drives too - the whole "populate" thing). that is about all i can do though, i can find where i can gain access to the drives

 

[yazman]

go in the help file and do a search on "Simple File Sharing" I'm 100% sure that's how they refer it to in XP.
Find how to enable it without going through Group Policy Stuff.

 

[odz]

Just log in as admin, you should have access to all the drives.

 

[bagaki]

i figured it out, thanks everone for all the help
i am grateful to you all

thanks again

 

[NesuD]

in control panel double click folder options under the view tab make sure that simple file sharing is checked it should be at the bottom of the list.