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by bencaston

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I have an account that has all the files kept private.. and i have my harddrive hooked to another windows box.. but when i try to back up my user account access is denied.. is there anyway to get around that? because the drive wont boot or otherwise i would do it that way. If i had a linux box up it would have already been done but i dont. Any ideas??

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by locolobo

Are you backing it up from the second windows box? If so does the user at that box have permissions to you private files?

Are you using the backup under System Tools? You can set it up to 'run as username'. If you are doing the backup from the first windows box does that user have rights to the harddrive on the second?

I've been there too. I'm doing backups to an external usb HD. It took me a while to get it automated to my satisfaction. All I can say for sure is keep playing with it. Good Luck!

by bencaston

yes im backing it up from the second windows box. And my user account doesnt have permission s to the account. I think that is why i cant access it. that is why im trying to figure out a way around that. i havent tried using the back up tool in system tools would that back up everything on the drive even if i dont have rights to it. Im a linux guy this windows crap is great...

by locolobo

I think you need rights to it from the second box. Can you open the directories on the first box from the second box? Sometimes being the admin isn't enough. Sometimes you have to specifically the administrator the permissions from the directories you want to share.

by bencaston

i cant access the drive becasue it wont boot.. that is why im backing it up off another machine. and when i click on the user directroy i get access denied.. and i need to get files out of that directory

by scott_heath

Right-click on the drive, go to Properties. Then click on the Security tab, click the Advanced button, and then click on the Owner tab. Highlight Administators then check the box for Replace owner on subcontainers and objects then click OK.

You should then be able to do what you want or add permissions to give yourself access.

You may notice that next to the current owner it says Administators (oldcomputername\administrators). Windows has imported the NTFS settings from your old drive. You may also notice on the Security tab that it says the same thing. If it does, add the Administrators group from your current PC, then click Advanced and check the box that says "Replace permisions entries...blah....blah" and click OK.

Let me know how it works out for you.

by bencaston

well i cant seem to see a security tab on the properties of the drive.. so im trying to back up through the system tools. It looks like it is copying alot o ffiles which most of them where under the admin directory that couldnt be accessed.. so we will see how it goes, Is there another way to get to the security settings of the drive?

by locolobo

that's the right way to set up permissions. If that doesn't work, then are you sure that the first HD is even working? This may be a hardware issue. Was the HD booting before?

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