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"access is denied" after hard-drive swap
Greetings. A friend of mine went out and bought a new computer. He
wants to copy over all his family's vital documents from his old hard-drive to the new hard-drive. I told him this should be easy and offered to do it for him. I dropped his old hard-drive into the computer and it's recognized without any problems (G: drive). I can see his entire directory structure and the only things we really want to copy are all the "Documents and Settings" files (both computers are WinXP). One of the user directories in the "Documents and Settings" folder we cannot access (ie, "G:\Documents and Settings\Steve"). It says, "Access is Denied" through Windows Explorer and DOS. He has a family of four and we can access everyone else's directory just fine. How can we get access to his old files in this directory? Any thoughts? |
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How to take ownership of a file or folder in XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308421 -- Tumppi Reply to group ================================================= Most learned on nntp://news.mircosoft.com Helsinki, Finland (remove _NOSPAM) (translations from FI/SE not always accurate) ================================================= kirjoitti viestissä oups.com... Greetings. A friend of mine went out and bought a new computer. He wants to copy over all his family's vital documents from his old hard-drive to the new hard-drive. I told him this should be easy and offered to do it for him. I dropped his old hard-drive into the computer and it's recognized without any problems (G: drive). I can see his entire directory structure and the only things we really want to copy are all the "Documents and Settings" files (both computers are WinXP). One of the user directories in the "Documents and Settings" folder we cannot access (ie, "G:\Documents and Settings\Steve"). It says, "Access is Denied" through Windows Explorer and DOS. He has a family of four and we can access everyone else's directory just fine. How can we get access to his old files in this directory? Any thoughts? |
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Hal wrote:
Maybe just login as "safe mode" or using USB external drive to access this directory. I was already accessing via a USB external connection. No luck on that front, BUT thanks for the suggestion to login in "safe mode". That did the trick. And much thanks to Tumppi for the Microsoft support link. That worked for me. Thanks again for all your help. |
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