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by rmessier

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I am trying to copy files from a laptop hard drive on an external USB drive to my computer. But on almost every folder under Documents and Settings (under my name) I cannot open or copy any files because it says that "Access is Denied". "The shared resource was not created at this time"

I installed a larger hard drive in my laptop and have my old hard drive in a HD Caddy using a USB 2.0 port for access. I have done this with other drives in the past and don't know why this would be that much different.

All I'm trying to do is copy MY Favorites and My Documents over to the new drive. The hard drive worked fine before I took it out, so I know there is nothing wrong with it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Oh my laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-S270P. Old HD was 60GB; new one is a 160GB. Running XP Pro SP2

Thanks in advance for your help.

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by entawanabi

Sometimes??? there is the problem to be addressed of the size of the Byte, now a childs byte is definatly smaller than adults... so if the two drives occupy the same volumne then the new ones byte is smaller than the old ones. Also those "Shared Resources" may not recognize the new one and doing their security things until you introduce them properly.

Enta Wanabi

by rmessier

Here is what I ended up having to do:
Boot up into safe mode (with admin rights); right click on the drive; then folder(s); go to properties; security and changed the owner to me. Important, you need to do this for "each" folder that you want to be able to access.

Thanks for you assistance...

by jbafile

Are you able to boot from the hard drive you are trying to copy things over from?

When you try to copy files over from another hard drive, and the files are in the documents of a user with a password protected Windows account you do not have proper ownership of the files so you won't be able to access the files unless you take ownership of them.

If you are able to boot from the old hard drive, and I am just assuming it was running Windows, remove any passwords you use to login to your Windows account.

Restart the computer and make sure that you are not prompted for a password upon Windows start up to login to your account.

Start the whole process again, and hopefully this will have solved your issue!

Good luck.

by rmessier

I did try this first and it still didn't help me kept getting the same message.

Here is what I ended up having to do:
Boot up into safe mode (with admin rights); right click on the drive; then folder(s); go to properties; security and changed the owner to me. Important, you need to do this for "each" folder that you want to be able to access.

Thanks for you assistance...

by scott_heath

Windows is smart and could be reading the old NTFS permissions. From My Computer, right click on the drive and go to Properties. Click on the Security tab and then the Advanced button. Click on the Owner tab. The current owner may be OLDPCNAME\Administrator. If you named the PCs the same it can be deceiving since the actually look the same but have different GUIDs. Anyway, choose the NEWPCNAME\Administrators group from the slection window and then check the boc next to "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and click OK until it opens the dreaded time remaining window.

Let me know how it goes.

by rmessier

You were almost right. :) You forgot to mention to me to put it into SAFE MODE 1st.

Here is what I ended up having to do:
Boot up into safe mode (with admin rights); right click on the drive; then folder(s); go to properties; security and changed the owner to me. Important, you need to do this for "each" folder that you want to be able to access.

Thanks for you assistance...

by rmessier

Here is what I ended up having to do:
Boot up into safe mode (with admin rights); right click on the drive; then folder(s); go to properties; security and changed the owner to me. Important, you need to do this for "each" folder that you want to be able to access.

Thanks for you assistance...

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