Cannot access 2nd Hard Drive

[ncgreyfriars]

Can any body help

My Pc has 2 HDD the 2nd drive had all my songs on access by I tunes and the PC was originally Loaded XP Home. I then loaded Vista Ultimate and was able to use the pc as normal but after a period of time i realised that there was no Benefit with having Vista as the PC had lost a lot of speed and proceeded to reload XP Home from the recovery DVD. Now i cannot access the 2nd drive the Directories are there and the properties shows that all the files are there but i cannot see the files. Both drives are NTFS when i click on the Dirctory i get the message you cannot access this drive.

Does anybody have any ideas how i can not access the directory

Many Thanks in advance

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Sounds like permission problems ..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 Follow the instructions here to get permissions set

 

[micheljaw]

You can try FAT Data Recovery Software. The brand of the HD does not matter here, the program can effectively recover your files.
For data recovery software, i would suggest you to try the evaluation versions first which will give you first hand experience to try and test the results.
Whatever the software, though, a potent point to remember is that when you download the program it is best saved on a disk other than the one you hope to recover data from or you could be permanently erasing otherwise recoverable data.