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Long story short....
I built a system for my friend over a year ago, for her son, as he was going
away to school. I got a call a few days ago, stating he was trying to
reinstall windows XP Pro. When I asked, he didn't realise he needed to backup
the drive first.
I have the computer to fix now and am stumped. I can't stop the install at
this point, but his files are still on the drive. The current install is bad
/corrupted, I never got to see the error. I tried to hook the drive up to my
new system, Vista Premium and had problems even getting ownership of the
files to back them up. I them placed it in my kid's XP Home system and got
one layer deeper, but I still can't get the files backed up.
I can't take ownership, I can't back up the files, I am denied every time I
try.
F:\Documentsandsettings\Jake\Misc. files and folders
Any ideas, ANYONE? PLEASE?
I've never run into this. I've always been able to back up files manually.
The only thing I can think of, is that possibly he made the files private,
unknowingly and then forgot about it. I'm not prompted for a password, he
claims he never put one on there.
I believe that is all I can possibly tell you at this point.
Thanks in advance.
I built a system for my friend over a year ago, for her son, as he was going
away to school. I got a call a few days ago, stating he was trying to
reinstall windows XP Pro. When I asked, he didn't realise he needed to backup
the drive first.
I have the computer to fix now and am stumped. I can't stop the install at
this point, but his files are still on the drive. The current install is bad
/corrupted, I never got to see the error. I tried to hook the drive up to my
new system, Vista Premium and had problems even getting ownership of the
files to back them up. I them placed it in my kid's XP Home system and got
one layer deeper, but I still can't get the files backed up.
I can't take ownership, I can't back up the files, I am denied every time I
try.
F:\Documentsandsettings\Jake\Misc. files and folders
Any ideas, ANYONE? PLEASE?
I've never run into this. I've always been able to back up files manually.
The only thing I can think of, is that possibly he made the files private,
unknowingly and then forgot about it. I'm not prompted for a password, he
claims he never put one on there.
I believe that is all I can possibly tell you at this point.
Thanks in advance.