saving files to a secondary drive

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Hi, I had to replace a motherboard cpu in my pc. The xp disk I have will not
allow me to do a "repair" so that the hive will allow the hardware change. I
have data that I need so I can't reinstall yet. I have a usb cradle for the
haard drive. The drive is in the cradle and recognized, I can see the
folders, but there is a password protection on the drive. When I try to open
the documents folder I get the error
Can not copy NTUSER: access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or
protected. The drive is from a different PC of course. I made a user account
for the name and password of the profile I need to transfer or copy. Please
help I have divorce data and pics I need to recover. Thanks John
 
traumajohn said:
Hi, I had to replace a motherboard cpu in my pc. The xp disk I have will not
allow me to do a "repair" so that the hive will allow the hardware change. I
have data that I need so I can't reinstall yet. I have a usb cradle for the
haard drive. The drive is in the cradle and recognized, I can see the
folders, but there is a password protection on the drive. When I try to open
the documents folder I get the error
Can not copy NTUSER: access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or
protected. The drive is from a different PC of course. I made a user account
for the name and password of the profile I need to transfer or copy. Please
help I have divorce data and pics I need to recover. Thanks John
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You cannot copy the file ntuser while you are logged on. The
file is locked and will remain locked until you log off. There
is no need to copy it anyway - it is part of your registry and
does not contain any useful data.
 
Sorry, I am confused and tired. I have disk 1 needs to be reinstalled can't
do a repair. I have connected that drive via usb cradle to my notebook disk
2. I have pictures and files on drive 1 that I want to send to drive 2 via
the connection cradle. The folder on disk 1 is password protected and will
not allow me to. I can see the folders but can't open them even if I am
logged into disk 2 as the name and password that is on disk 1. How can I copy
those files on disk 1 to disk 2? Do I have to rename all of the .pwl files?
 
traumajohn said:
Sorry, I am confused and tired. I have disk 1 needs to be reinstalled
can't do a repair. I have connected that drive via usb cradle to my
notebook disk 2. I have pictures and files on drive 1 that I want to
send to drive 2 via the connection cradle. The folder on disk 1 is
password protected and will not allow me to. I can see the folders but
can't open them even if I am logged into disk 2 as the name and
password that is on disk 1. How can I copy those files on disk 1 to
disk 2? Do I have to rename all of the .pwl files? on the drive then
try it?
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First try taking ownership of the files:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

If that doesn't work, boot the system with Knoppix and retrieve the
files that way. If the second hard drive is formatted NTFS, you'll need
to copy the files onto different media (see below). Here is information
about Knoppix:

An easy way to retrieve Windows files is to boot with Knoppix, a Linux
distro on a live cd. You will need a computer with two cd drives, one
of which is a cd/dvd-rw OR a usb thumb drive with enough capacity to
hold your data OR an external hard drive formatted FAT32 (not NTFS). To
get Knoppix, you need a computer with a fast Internet connection and
third-party burning software. Download the Knoppix .iso from
www.knoppix.net and create your bootable cd. Then boot with it and it
will be able to see the Windows files. If you are using the usb thumb
drive or the external hard drive, right-click on its icon (on the
Desktop) to get its properties and uncheck the box that says "Read
Only". Then click on it to open it. Note that the default mouse action
in the window manager used by Knoppix (KDE) is a single click to open
instead of the traditional MS Windows' double-click. Otherwise, use the
K3b burning program to burn the files to cd/dvd-r's.

Malke
 
Thank you,
If this doesn't work for some reason, Is there a way to boot up from the
second drive instead of the original drive? Both drives have xp installed.
 
traumajohn said:
Thank you,
If this doesn't work for some reason, Is there a way to boot up from the
second drive instead of the original drive? Both drives have xp installed.
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Are both installations / disks from the same computer? if so yes, otherwise
you would have different hardware configurations on them and would not work.
 
oh yeah hence see problem #1. I guess I thought of that right after I posted.
Thanks for the 411. They are Diff. systems.
 
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