Re: Error in copying files from old HDD My Documents folder?

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Your description is somewhat confusing re: which is the permanent C-drive etc., but if you turn off simple file sharing (Tools-Folder Options-View in Windows Explorer) and check Properties-Security-Advanced on \Main User\, you can see who the owner is (user account name) and what permissions it has.

When I move files to a new computer (or one on which I've re-installed Windows), I temporarily make the user account an admin account and use that account to copy over all files so that it is the owner. If you copied the files with some other account it will be the owner and she might not be able to access them due to file permissions.

Pheasant Plucker wrote:
Hi there,

I wonder if some kind soul could help me please?

My girlfriend has just got a new PC and we wanted to copy over all of her files/documents/data from the 2 HDD's on the old PC on to the new one.

As there is a lot of data rather than burn to DVD and then copy that way I thought I would connect each old HDD one at a time into the new PC and just use Explorer to copy the relevant data.

The original HDD is named XP Home and came with the old PC originally and some time later I added a larger HDD and installed XP Pro and set up for dual boot which worked very well.

Now I have installed the XP Home drive into the new PC to become the D: drive and copied across the Documents and Settings/Main User in its entirety with no problems.

I then removed the XP Home drive and connected the XP Pro drive and booted with no problems.

I opened Explorer and looked at XP Pro which was also now the D: drive.

I opened up Documents and Settings but was unable to open Main User as access was denied.

Why should this happen?

I managed to setup the Main User folder as shared and now I can see all the other folders in it but am unable to copy anything because of this error access denied business.

I cannot set these other folders to shared as access is denied.

Is there an easy way round this problem as all I want to do is ensure she has all of her documents/settings etc transferred to her new PC.

Thanks & regards,
-=pp=-



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-Pat
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