Re: How do I Transfer Data files from Old Accounts?
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:11:19 -0700
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:48:23 -0800, Richard <rng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I have a 4 year old computer which came with Windows XP Home Edition.
Lately, it had become unstable (re-booting frequently for no reason) and very
slow (click Start, wait 2 seconds, click Shutdown, wait 4 seconds). So I copied
all of the data files, including a LOT of music files, to another computer on my
LAN. Then I re-installed Windows XP.
Judging from the still almost full hard drive, the old files are still on the
drive. In "C:\Documents and Settings\" I can see the folder for my old account.
But I cannot access this folder from my new account, even though at the Windows
login screen it says Administrator under my name.
Exactly how did you "reinstall" Windows? It sounds like you did it
improperly and may have done a "repair installation" (a name which
confuses people, in my view; I think it should simply be called a
"repair) or, more likely, you installed a second copy in parallel, and
now have two installations.
By the way, I think reinstalling in situations like this is generally
poor practice, for a bunch of reasons. I'll mention just two:
1. You never found out what was wrong, and if the problems were caused
by something you did (which is often likely) you will likely repeat
the same behavior and quickly find yourself back in the situation you
started in.
2. Spontaneous rebooting is often a hardware problem, not a Windows
one. If that's the case for you, reinstalling does nothing to solve
the problem.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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