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My girlfriends OS crashed a while ago. We got her a new hd because it was a 5" drive. I tried to copy her old files from Windows XP Pro to her new hd but it won't let me copy files out of her user folder. Files in other sections of the drive were able to copy. Does anyone know a way around this?
Is the old drive formatted NTFS and are you logged in as an admin? What error do you get?
It could be a permission's issue. Are you in an admin account and was your old drive formatted to NTFS?
EDIT: Damn Irongeek beat me to it ;)
install the os on the new HD w/ntfs. make the old one a secondary HD. logged on as admin on the new OS you can copy anything over from the old hd
It says Access is Denied. I took a picture of the screen. I already tried Tedob1's idea and it didn't work. I can't also boot from the old hd. So I can't log on to it.
But are you logged in as the Administrator or as an account in the local administrators group?
Oh, to find out if you are a local admin drop out to the command prompt and do the following command:
If you are an admin there should be a line in the output like this one:Code:whoami /groups
[Group 5] = "BUILTIN\Administrators"
I had this happend to me once before. I coould not, even as the administrator, change the permissions. Boot Windows in safe mode as the administrator then reset the permissions. If by some chance the files were encrypted and you did not back up the recovery key then they are lost.
No need to boot to safe mode but you may need to "Take Ownership" of the files before you're able to change the ACLs.
You can reset permissions of an older hd thru an admin like user, since those permissions are related to OTHER installation of Windows and the new one will permit you to change that.
Exception:
the folder was encripted. see at folders properties if it is.
you can do it trugth dos.....look in google how to read ntfs files with a win98 disk..i don't remember...but it was the way how i solved it once....is just a file that have to be ad to the boot disk...
the you boot trougth dos....copy files..and thas it....
or if anithing else works....jajaj get a fiscal scanner......a copy them...or erease..and recover.....
but all the ways that where all ready mentoines really works.....the only posible left...if no one of it works......is a problem in the alocation table...or a conflic with permissions.....jajajajaja or put it over a linux....i dump away all the nasty hdd securyti from windows....
I kinda have a similar problem, My main drive crashed, so i restored the XP os, ad i had 2 biefcases, with documents in them on the slave drive,and they show as encrypted,are my files totaly lost now?