Hello Umar Can you see the SATA disk in the Finder at all when booted from your now-working Master-HD? In other words, does it successfully mount? If so It might be as simple as selecting that drive in the Finder. Then select File: Get Info, click on the little padlock in the lower right of the Get Info Window, entering your admin password, then changing Sharing & Permissions to Read/Write for whatever User you are signed in as. ------------------------------------------ John Smutko smutt235 at mac.com I'd like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the fine job the folks at the NSA are doing > G'day Mac people, I want my G4 to be cool, > I had some bad problems earlier in the year but I just fixed my > Master-HD by erasing everything and reinstalling OSX, but I lost all > the programs and files nothing else would work, I have an SATA > though that has most of the original data but it won't give me > access, I tried to boot up with Disk Warrior on it but as soon as it > went to the disk the SCREEN TURNED GREY and all PIXELATED I could > hardly read a thing on it for access to the choices, this same thing > happens with startup from the SATA, and also when I started up with > the apple OSX disk reinstalling OSX10.4 on the Master > The erasing all the stuff and redoing it on the Master fixed it for > that originally, but the SATA has too much on it to wipe I'd loose > so much > Hi can anyone help me to save my stuff > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4