one for the real techies....

[lazaroonie]

ok so I have a hard drive out of an old computer which I need to copy the mydocs from, pretty standard. The only user on this machine was administrator.

I add the drive as a secondary ide slave drive, and it pops up under explorer in my machine as "E" - click on documents and settings, administrator, and bang "Access Denied".

I look at the properties of this folder and it says read only - unclick this, apply and close, but no differnce.

any ideas ?

[booder]

check to see if the tarbuckulator has become detached.

[CelticGeezeer]

Have you tried taking ownership

[lazaroonie]

check to see if the tarbuckulator has become detached.

wow, that seems to have worked Boo, cheers mate...

 

[lazaroonie]

Have you tried taking ownership

just been reading about that on the ms knowledgebase, looks like the problem lies somewhere in that area.

Weird, cos the user on both machines was administrator....oh well..

cheers

[CelticGeezeer]

admin on diff machines are different and have different access rights

[weller001]

taking ownership should work,  - right click , properties, security, advanced, owner tab.

change ownership to your current login.

[kinboshi]

If you struggle to do that, you can always create a linux boot disk that lets you get onto the hard drive and change Windows admin passwords, copy files, etc.

[weller001]

yep - good shout - this one has worked for me in the past  - http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/