Re: Documents and Settings woes

You need to check out "take ownership" in the Help & Support. You should be
able to take ownership of the folders within your login name and this will
allow you to copy them.

Neil
"John Collins" <johncoll6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns9630A80932AFDjohncollenoreoonca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Due to a motherboard burnout on my laptop I had to remove its hard drive
> and copy its files to a backup external hard drive. I didn't include the
> Windows folder in the files. What the copying process would not allow is
> the the copying of the folder within Documents and Settings with my name
> on
> it. I was told that the file was locked or that the hard drive was full.
> Any suggestions as to how I can copy that subfolder?
>
> Thanks,
> John


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