New PC - access is denied to My Docs

[jellyhead]

Just got a new pc Pentium 4 3.2Ghz 1GIG RAM WinXP Pro C: drive is 160GB and using old 40GB hard drive as D: WinXP Home

Problem is even though there I removed the passwords on the user accounts on the D: drive and they are Administrators, I cannot access, copy or cut any of my documents to transfer them to the new C: drive so that I can then re-format the D: drive.

Any ideas? TIA.

 

[StormBringer]

Are you currently logged in as Administrator? What are the permissions settings for the folders you are trying to access?

 

[jellyhead]

All users on both OS on both drives are logged in as administrators. The folders are not in the shared folders and I can't drag them to it. Is this what you mean by permission settings? If not, please tell me how I check this? Thanks.

 

[StormBringer]

see if they are marked Private. In the folder's Properties, click the Sharing Tab, you should see a box that says "make this folder Private" is it checked?

Note: that option may be greyed out on some folders, and it may be checked and greyed out if it is in another folder marked Private.

 

[jellyhead]

No none of the folders are marked private. The folders I'm trying to copy from D drive to C drive are actually in XP Home, which doesn't have that option anyway.

 

[StormBringer]

hmm, thats odd because I'm looking at another machine here that has XP Home on it, and it has the Sharing tab and that option.

 

[jellyhead]

Definitely greyed out. If I try and copy a folder it comes up with the access denied error but then copies only the folder not the contents of the folder.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Can you boot into the old XP-Home? If so, try and copy those files over to a temporary directory or straight to the new C-drive if it lets you. You could also burn those file to a CD while in XP-home.

Alternatively, if your file-system is NTFS, get a W98SE boot-disk, go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and also download the file readntfs.exe (under heading "Windows XP bootdisk sets/File recovery" You'll find an explanation there.

Second alternative: go to http://www.v-com.com/product/pd_free_trial.html and download a free trial PowerDesk. I have had excellent results copying obnoxious files from weird HD's using this prog.