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| 05 Jun 2011 | #1 |
| | Moving files from old drive Greetings, My mother in law had her towers motherboard die. I was able to grab the SATA drive out and pop it in to my external SATA USB adaptor and I can see it as a G drive. I am trying to move over the documents but keep getting a permission denied error. This tower was running XP. Is there a way to force the copy or change the permissions so it work. Just want to salvage her documents and pictures. Thanks in advance. Ed |
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| 05 Jun 2011 | #2 |
| | Hello Ed, It sounds like you may need to take ownership of the G drive, and set the G drive's permissions to "Allow" your user account "Full Control" before you will gain access. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 05 Jun 2011 | #3 |
| | I gave that a go but still get a permission error. I see that under properties the files are 'hidden' I wonder if this is effecting the problem. |
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| 05 Jun 2011 | #4 |
| | Have you already tried taking ownership and applying permissions to the folders and their contents for the document and picture files? |
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| 05 Jun 2011 | #5 |
| | Holy cow... It worked once I paid attention.  Since the drive was originally a C drive with Windows it would not work. But after realizing that I just wanted to take ownership of "mydocuments" it worked. I want to burn these a DVD for her to use now. Do I have to adjust permissions again so she can access them?Big help you are.... |
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| 05 Jun 2011 | #6 |
| | That's great news Ed. It depends on where you saved them to and if she already has access to that location or not. |
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