Skuzzy need serious help

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here is the issue,

for awhile now when I start the comp, it says that my HD needed to be replaced, well it finally crapped out,

yesterday when I turned on my system, it would not boot-up, says system file is missing or corrupt,and says I should try the recovery console,
    I checked it out but have no clue were to start or what to do for recovery.

so I went and got a new HD, and new OS,  I got every thing up and running and it works good.

but when I go into my old drive, I cant excess my "my documents", I can get into my wifes docs, and guest's, and program files, but it will not allow me to excess my stuff.

I know this is not the normal type question,  but I have no clue, and every one I have asked or talked to about it, they have no clue, even the "computer guru's".

I have so much stuff I will loose, all my films of AH, screen shots, artwork, photo's, most of the very important stuff i have backed up on disc, but none of the things I listed 

I tried to change the properties from read only(unchecked the box), but it just goes back to that,(read only) once I close out the properties.

I was going to repair the OS, but don't want to mess around with recovery console, without knowing exactly what I am doing.
I am running xp home. SP3

do you know how I can fix this? 

thanx ether way



Paul

[RTHolmes]

for awhile now when I start the comp, it says that my HD needed to be replaced, well it finally crapped out

your disk is trashed, just junk it and restore everything you need from your backups. you did backup everything you wanted to save when you got the first warning about the disk didnt you? if not you'll know next time. you were lucky - even with SMART disks you dont normally get any warning of impending catastrophic disk failure.

[kamori]

what system file is missing or corupt ?
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[Kermit de frog]

It could be a permissions issue.

Try creating a user account with the same USER NAME and password...it there was one of course.  Then log into the new account and see if you can access the "my documents" on your old HD.

[Delirium]

I agree with Kermit on this one...

[SectorNine50]

Sounds to me like your stuff is encrypted.  Did you have your own account on the computer with a password?  If you made it so other accounts can't view your documents, then it will actually encrypt the stuff more or less.  I had the same issue on the computer I'm on.

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It could be a permissions issue.

Try creating a user account with the same USER NAME and password...it there was one of course.  Then log into the new account and see if you can access the "my documents" on your old HD.

someone I talked to today suggested the same thing, I thought it was too easy, but I am gonna try.

what system file is missing or corupt ?

I believe its the "system32" folder, but not 100% certain.