I recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro on one of my computers and added 2 external harddrives that I used on a separate machine (now disposed).
For the migration I copied all my personal files to 2 external HDDs.
Now I’ve reinstalled XP I’m getting “Access Denied” when I attempt to copy some files from the external back to the C drive. It appears to be random- not specific to folders or filetypes.
I have followed everything I’ve found on the web to no avail. Tried so far: 1) taken ownership of all files and folders, both as admin group and as specific user name, 2) logging on as Administrator as well as administrator user and 3) started all services in service manager but none of these have solved the problem.
I believe its a permission glitch as it happens with exactly the same files on both drives.
Both disks check out ok on chkdsk. The previous computer was running XP SP2 username Ian Smith, the new one is running XP SP3, username Ian.
I’ve also hooked up the drive to a machine running Ubuntu- it gives a “permission denied” for exactly the same files so now I’m really confused.
Any help would be very much appreciated- I’m starting to get worried about the data.
Thanks,
Ian
