I saved some data from my aunts computer onto a hard drive with a useless installation of windows 2000 on it (I wish I had formatted it but I didnt think it would matter!). So let me explain this a little more in depth because I think you'll see this isnt as straightforward as you think.
The drive I copied the data onto had a previous installation of windows 2000, however it wasnt running off this disk. I pulled it out of a different computer and was only using it for temporary storage. After I reinstalled windows XP on my aunts computer I went to copy the files from that windows 2000 drive (still had not been booted, only a slave in my aunts computer) and when I copy the files it has access denied error. Im sure many of you are familiar with this problem.
So I went to try and change the owner of the folder to an administrator but I didnt have permission to even do that and it was locked to some rediculous user like "83279-32-dlkajf3285u2ds". I made that up but it was random like that...I dont think I have any user names like that on my old computer... Anyways so after some cursing I booted the computer with sherpyas XPE and I was able to change the owner to administrators.
When I booted the computer back up I was able to take ownership of the folder but still not copy or even execute the files. So thats very confusing to me. I even tried putting the windows 2000 drive back in the computer it came out of to see if I could access the files then, but no. Now It's in my computer as a slave and I still havnt been able to access these files. Ive seen a lot of links to microsofts solution to this...chaning the ownership...but it doesnt work for me! And I cant figure out why. I really need help guys, Im out of ideas
ARe there any programs that will copy these files somehow without ownership? I was using Beyond COmpare originally...I dunno. HELP!
The drive I copied the data onto had a previous installation of windows 2000, however it wasnt running off this disk. I pulled it out of a different computer and was only using it for temporary storage. After I reinstalled windows XP on my aunts computer I went to copy the files from that windows 2000 drive (still had not been booted, only a slave in my aunts computer) and when I copy the files it has access denied error. Im sure many of you are familiar with this problem.
So I went to try and change the owner of the folder to an administrator but I didnt have permission to even do that and it was locked to some rediculous user like "83279-32-dlkajf3285u2ds". I made that up but it was random like that...I dont think I have any user names like that on my old computer... Anyways so after some cursing I booted the computer with sherpyas XPE and I was able to change the owner to administrators.
When I booted the computer back up I was able to take ownership of the folder but still not copy or even execute the files. So thats very confusing to me. I even tried putting the windows 2000 drive back in the computer it came out of to see if I could access the files then, but no. Now It's in my computer as a slave and I still havnt been able to access these files. Ive seen a lot of links to microsofts solution to this...chaning the ownership...but it doesnt work for me! And I cant figure out why. I really need help guys, Im out of ideas
ARe there any programs that will copy these files somehow without ownership? I was using Beyond COmpare originally...I dunno. HELP!