need help! i can't acces my own folder :(

Philippines
January 24, 2007 5:25pm CST
i just did the worst in my own computer... you see, i have two partitions for my harddrive... one for OS and the other for my files, this way, even if my OS crash, i can readily format it without the risk of erasing my documents.... the problem is, i made "my pictures" folder private, so when i reformatted my OS, i cannot access it! now i don't what to do so i can access my "my pictures" folder again... help please, anybody knows what i should do? i would really appreciate it... i already tried accessing it through DOS... no good result...
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@Mikaelo (191)
• Philippines
25 Jan 07
Cavacus is right...that's the way to do it. Change the ownership of the folder in order for you to gain access again to that folder. Because even if you make the same profile, the OS will still think that you are a different owner of the folder.