Re: c:\Documents and Settings\Username is not accessible

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<Logitech> wrote:

> c:\Documents and Settings\Username is not accessible
>
> My harddisk died and I plug it into another pc to access it.
>
> All files can be copied except the files which originally put in the
> c:\Documents and Settings\Username
>
> This happened before, and I remembered there is a way to change the
> users rights of the folder to retrieve the data back, but I cannot
> find how to do it now.

Take ownership of the files:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

Malke
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