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Hello.
My old HDD was dying and has a S.M.A.R.T. error (although it will still boot
and run it is getting slow).
So I bought a new drive, slammed it in the case and decided to do a nice
clean reinstall (XP Home with all the SP2 and updates available).
I left the old drive in the bay and was hoping to copy across any odd file
I'd forgotten to backup later. I can still change my BIOS to boot to the old
drive so I know it hasn't totally died yet.
However I get a lot of "Access is Denied" messages when trying to
view/read/change attributes on files/folders especially in Documents and
Settings.
Any ideas please on how I can make all these files available when I'm booted
into the new HDD as I can see them but not touch!
Most of the KB articles apply to XP Pro (simplified file sharing) which are
no use to me.
Thanks for any ideas.
Carole
PS. My last resort is to backup the whole old HDD to an external device and
then try to access that...
Hello.
My old HDD was dying and has a S.M.A.R.T. error (although it will still boot
and run it is getting slow).
So I bought a new drive, slammed it in the case and decided to do a nice
clean reinstall (XP Home with all the SP2 and updates available).
I left the old drive in the bay and was hoping to copy across any odd file
I'd forgotten to backup later. I can still change my BIOS to boot to the old
drive so I know it hasn't totally died yet.
However I get a lot of "Access is Denied" messages when trying to
view/read/change attributes on files/folders especially in Documents and
Settings.
Any ideas please on how I can make all these files available when I'm booted
into the new HDD as I can see them but not touch!
Most of the KB articles apply to XP Pro (simplified file sharing) which are
no use to me.
Thanks for any ideas.
Carole
PS. My last resort is to backup the whole old HDD to an external device and
then try to access that...