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I have purchased a new PC, with WinXP Home, SP2 pre-installed by the vendor.
I have also removed the OLD PC's hard disk, without touching anything except
a jumper setting on the disk itself to take it from Master to Slave,
connected it into the new HW as a second HDD and wish to copy old files from
the old configuration to the new. So far, everything copies except those
items contained in the \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\*.*
and \Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\*.* folders. These folders
are marked "Unavailable", I think. (The error message text escapes me, but I
cannot see anything below those last folder names).
Under WinXP Pro on the old HW, there were several different users, and I
wish to extract some of that old information to the new personality under the
new HW and SW regime. I also used this PC through several different
operating systems and file systems, since it was dual boot Win98 and XP Pro.
I earlier used WinNT 4 as well on the old HW, before upgrading to XP Pro.
I am unable to use the "Take Ownership" feature that once was available, but
am looking for something like this ability, I think.
Is there something different in the work-around for partitions set up to be
FAT32 vs NTFS vs older file systems?
What do I need to do to copy these protected files into the new setup?
I have also removed the OLD PC's hard disk, without touching anything except
a jumper setting on the disk itself to take it from Master to Slave,
connected it into the new HW as a second HDD and wish to copy old files from
the old configuration to the new. So far, everything copies except those
items contained in the \Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\*.*
and \Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\*.* folders. These folders
are marked "Unavailable", I think. (The error message text escapes me, but I
cannot see anything below those last folder names).
Under WinXP Pro on the old HW, there were several different users, and I
wish to extract some of that old information to the new personality under the
new HW and SW regime. I also used this PC through several different
operating systems and file systems, since it was dual boot Win98 and XP Pro.
I earlier used WinNT 4 as well on the old HW, before upgrading to XP Pro.
I am unable to use the "Take Ownership" feature that once was available, but
am looking for something like this ability, I think.
Is there something different in the work-around for partitions set up to be
FAT32 vs NTFS vs older file systems?
What do I need to do to copy these protected files into the new setup?