HDD access denied...important!

[Moses]

ok so originally my computer was working fine...during the day...
later on i tried to turn it on and vista's loading bar would come up and then where the login screen should be would now turn black then flash and my cursor appears and nothing else happens from there...
so now my computer wont boot apparently...
so i used my vista cd to install vista on my recovery partition of my hdd (10 gigs) so i could access my files...and copy them n then wipe the whole thing clean. but no....if i try to open D:\ of my hdd it says access denied....
i need a program which would be able to bypass that block.
and the permission thing doesn't work.
i jus want some files before i wipe...
please help

[zRo ToLeRaNcE]

What permission thing have you tried?...the one you say doesn't work.

[Anubis]

I think he is referring to the permission settings in file & folder security zRo.

[khat17]

You installed it on your recovery partition? That wasn't smart.........If your recovery partition has on recovery data then you probably just ensured that the machine cannot go back to factory. May have to edit your boot.ini to get that back. Anyways.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...menu-in-vista/

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how-...ders-in-vista/

Those should help. Vista has that issue at times.

[Aldayne]

I think by "recovery partition" he means one that he created himself for emergency purposes. If you use a live cd such as ubuntu you should be able to access and copy your files to the 10gig partition.

[zRo ToLeRaNcE]

I think he is referring to the permission settings in file & folder security zRo.

I won't assume - that's why i want the person to say it clearly cause it makes it hard to help if we can't be sure what they tried already.

[wheelman]

Was the disk a Basic or Dynamic one?

[Yung_Jah]

Do u mean u r seeing D:/ is not accessible?

You can also go into safe mode on the working HDD....and right click on the drive and choose properties...go to the security tab then advanced and chose to replace owner right (something similar to that)....

But try using the Live CD as suggested.

[Moses]

wow im so annoyed...it was a simple fix...i just turned user account control off and got access.......
then i made another 10 gig partition to my hdd copied the files....and formatted the other 2 partitions (the main n recovery)...reinstalled vista n recopied my files to the main n formatted n deleted the newly made partition then jus re-extended my main...its all fixed now...by myself...saved me some cash.
but thanx neways

[D Boy]

Glad to know problem solved, but simple??