installed Vista on new partition, now cant access old one!

So my other Vista install became corrupted (I'm not sure why) and I couldn't boot it up to recover my files on that partition. So I installed Vista into a different partition in hopes of getting the files off the old one. The new one works fine, but when I click on the old partition (Drive D) it says that it is inaccessible and that access is denied. any idea how i can get in there?

Thank you!

 

Have you tried doing a Repair on the Vista partition that you can't access?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925810/en-us

Were you using Bitlocker on the old Vista partition?

 

Just use "Hiren's boot cd.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3
XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition

You can start useing great little programs or reinstall your OS's in the order that MS will allow. With this you can drop any amount of installed OS's and this program will let you boot into it, includeing for example OSX.

Make life easy on yourself, Install your OS/'s and make images and then you can screw stuff up as much as you want and never need to reinstall just reapply your original image.

End of thread.