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Dear all
I have a serious problem with WindowsXP - I think its a security issue.
Due to a hard drive failure I reinstalled Widows onto my machine - I now
have 2 copies of WindowsXP at boot-time one version doesn't work/boot due to
the hard disk problem and one (the newly installed one) works fine. The
problem is I want to retrieve \My Documents from the old install and move
them to the new one (actually onto a new disk) ; I can see the \My Documents
folder but when I click on it to display my files I get "Access Denied".
I am assuming that Windows Security is preventing me access to my own files
from which were put on by the 1st Copy of Windows and that the 2nd copy
can't read them.
Is that right and if so how do I get around this problem ?
Thanks for any help.
Dear all
I have a serious problem with WindowsXP - I think its a security issue.
Due to a hard drive failure I reinstalled Widows onto my machine - I now
have 2 copies of WindowsXP at boot-time one version doesn't work/boot due to
the hard disk problem and one (the newly installed one) works fine. The
problem is I want to retrieve \My Documents from the old install and move
them to the new one (actually onto a new disk) ; I can see the \My Documents
folder but when I click on it to display my files I get "Access Denied".
I am assuming that Windows Security is preventing me access to my own files
from which were put on by the 1st Copy of Windows and that the 2nd copy
can't read them.
Is that right and if so how do I get around this problem ?
Thanks for any help.