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Can't access files on old hard drive
Hi - not sure if someone has already asked this so please bear with.
Ran Win XP for years never had any issues till my motherboard failed last week. Went and bought a new tower with Win 7 Pro. I've installed the old hard drive into the new computer since it was still good and plenty of space left. More importantly i wanted to transfer some of the files to the new hard drive. - i intend to get an external after this i think - anyway - the old HD is being read - files are all there i just can't access them.
EG
previewing a picture in photoviewer...
"PV can't open picture because you don't have the correct permissions to access the file location."
a video...
"...proxy settings may not be correct."
I've tried doing the authorization and claiming the files but thats not working. i'm left with blank picture viewers.
Hard drive shouldn't be an issue as it is even the same make just 280 less space then the new 500G drive. And as i said - it is functioning.
Thoughts?