Access Rights to Powerquest Drive Image 5.0 Files

[Bob Huntley]

I've used Powerquest Drive Image 5.0 to backup my system disk for years,
copying the image files to the other hard disks in the PC. I recently tried
to copy them to an external (USB 2 linked) hard disk and got an "access
denied" error message. I am running an account with full administrator
rights so was a bit surprised by this. I'm using XP Home in case that makes
any difference.

I can probably take ownership of the files, but wonder if they would
subsequently work if I needed to perform a Drive Image recovery - does
anyone have any experience to confirm or deny this potential problem?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I've used Powerquest Drive Image 5.0 to backup my system disk for
years, copying the image files to the other hard disks in the PC. I
recently tried to copy them to an external (USB 2 linked) hard disk
and got an "access denied" error message. I am running an account
with full administrator rights so was a bit surprised by this. I'm
using XP Home in case that makes any difference.

I can probably take ownership of the files, but wonder if they would
subsequently work if I needed to perform a Drive Image recovery -
does anyone have any experience to confirm or deny this potential
problem?

Well - I would try taking ownership. I don't know why you would be denied -
especially if these are recently created (with the same account you are
using) files.. But yes - they are just files - who owns them should be of
no consequence in using them to restore.