[SJ_niall_UK]

I recently had to reinstall XP for work reasons, the re-install has gone fine... but heres my problem...

My home computer gets used by four different people, all of which, apart from me, have almost no idea what they're doing. So, to protect my music collection from accidental deletion etc. I used the user access feature of vista so that only my user account could access the folder that contains all the music... I now cannot access this folder from XP... the data is still there, I've done my maths with free space on drive, but XP reckons the folder is empty, and says...

d:\music is not accessible

access is denied

when I double click it... I've tried everything I can think of... please help

[DaveA]

Since you set it so that ONLY the account from Vista could access this folder, you are toast.
Since we do NOT know for sure that you are who you say you are, this falls in the neighborhood of passwords and help may not be available from this site.