Guest Chandra Posted August 5, 2007 Posted August 5, 2007 Hello! My house was struck by lightening, causing a PC to be rendered useless. I installed the hard drives into another computer to retrieve the data. (the data is ok! yay!) When trying to copy files & folders from the OS drive (my documents, etc) onto the drive it used to live with on the old machine, i keep getting an error: "Cannot copy XYZ file: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use" So, there is 100GB free on the HD its being moved to, 79GB free on the drive the files live on. The files have never been opened on this machine. SOME of the files are marked as "Read Only" but It will not allow me to remove that designation - saying I don't have permissions. Others are not. Anyone know of anyway to copy/move these files from one hard drive to another without getting dumb errors? I am on Win XP Home Edition. Thank you VERY MUCH ~Jaime Chandra
Guest JS Posted August 5, 2007 Posted August 5, 2007 Re: unable to copy from one HD to another Access is Denied Error Message: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881 Shared folder access: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sdperms.htm Also read this MS KB article about how to take ownership of files. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421 There is also a utility named: Unlocker I have not used it but it has been mentioned a number of times. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ JS "Chandra" <domspe@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186354744.997339.150230@b79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > Hello! > > My house was struck by lightening, causing a PC to be rendered > useless. I installed the hard drives into another computer to retrieve > the data. (the data is ok! yay!) > > When trying to copy files & folders from the OS drive (my documents, > etc) onto the drive it used to live with on the old machine, i keep > getting an error: > "Cannot copy XYZ file: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not > full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use" > > So, there is 100GB free on the HD its being moved to, 79GB free on the > drive the files live on. The files have never been opened on this > machine. SOME of the files are marked as "Read Only" but It will not > allow me to remove that designation - saying I don't have permissions. > Others are not. > > Anyone know of anyway to copy/move these files from one hard drive to > another without getting dumb errors? > > I am on Win XP Home Edition. > > Thank you VERY MUCH > > ~Jaime Chandra >
Guest Chandra Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: unable to copy from one HD to another Success!! I used the backup & recovery wizard.. made a back up & restored to the desired location. I used Advanced mode & told it to ditch security settings, etc. this worked great. hope this may help someone else
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