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oldpaint
Guest
Apparently I, logged in as administrator don't have the authority to copy and
paste files from one hard drive to another locally on my computer.
I have a dual boot system with vista home premium 64 on c: and xp home on E:
and I use D: for data files. I have 3 wd raptors in a raid 0 array
partitioned roughly in half with vista on one and xp on the other and a
separate hd for the data. Vista bsod'd and crashed and corrupted ntldr and
xp will no longer boot up. I had my email set up on xp. Lots of email. From
vista I tried to copy and paste the email data from where it is stored on the
partition with xp on it to my data drive to no avail. PERMISSION DENIED. I
tried taking ownership of the directory where the data is stored and the
directory where I was going to paste to, I shared all drives and directories,
I gave full permissions to ALL USERS, I tried safe mode, I used the command
prompt, nothing worked. It was always PERMISSION DENIED! The directory the
emails are stored in (outlook express) is a read only directory and when I go
to the properties of that folder and uncheck the read only box and click OK
it just reverts back to read only. Next time I check it's back to read only.
What's with all this crap? It shouldn't be this hard (or impossible?) to do
something this simple. If I don't have access to my own files on my own
computer then who does? Is this some kind of sick joke? I've been working at
this for the last 6 hours and am now thoroughly disgusted!
paste files from one hard drive to another locally on my computer.
I have a dual boot system with vista home premium 64 on c: and xp home on E:
and I use D: for data files. I have 3 wd raptors in a raid 0 array
partitioned roughly in half with vista on one and xp on the other and a
separate hd for the data. Vista bsod'd and crashed and corrupted ntldr and
xp will no longer boot up. I had my email set up on xp. Lots of email. From
vista I tried to copy and paste the email data from where it is stored on the
partition with xp on it to my data drive to no avail. PERMISSION DENIED. I
tried taking ownership of the directory where the data is stored and the
directory where I was going to paste to, I shared all drives and directories,
I gave full permissions to ALL USERS, I tried safe mode, I used the command
prompt, nothing worked. It was always PERMISSION DENIED! The directory the
emails are stored in (outlook express) is a read only directory and when I go
to the properties of that folder and uncheck the read only box and click OK
it just reverts back to read only. Next time I check it's back to read only.
What's with all this crap? It shouldn't be this hard (or impossible?) to do
something this simple. If I don't have access to my own files on my own
computer then who does? Is this some kind of sick joke? I've been working at
this for the last 6 hours and am now thoroughly disgusted!