Copying from PC to PC

[spionfox]

I have backed up all of my documents from one WinXP Home PC onto a portable hard drive. No problem accessing the files on the original PC.

When I plug the drive into a second WinXP Home PC most of the files can't be accessed - I get an 'access denied' message.

I suspect this is something to do with the NTFS drive or else some sort of 'security' feature to stop documents being accessed on another PC.

Plugged the drive into a Linux box but it couldn't mount it due to the filing system in use (NTFS-(something)3).

Any ideas?

I could go back to the host PC and copy all the files outside of My Documents and that would work but I want to access these files now and don't have access to the original PC.

Thanks Gurus :icon_bigg

 

[Matt_B]

I have backed up all of my documents from one WinXP Home PC onto a portable hard drive. No problem accessing the files on the original PC.

When I plug the drive into a second WinXP Home PC most of the files can't be accessed - I get an 'access denied' message.

I suspect this is something to do with the NTFS drive or else some sort of 'security' feature to stop documents being accessed on another PC.

Plugged the drive into a Linux box but it couldn't mount it due to the filing system in use (NTFS-(something)3).

Any ideas?

I could go back to the host PC and copy all the files outside of My Documents and that would work but I want to access these files now and don't have access to the original PC.

Thanks Gurus :icon_bigg

Based on your last sentence I assume all of the files were copied from My Documents, in which case they will be locked by user.

This might help http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

 

[spionfox]

This might help http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

It did indeed - thanks.

Have downloaded a 'fix' from MS to put the missing security tab onto the properties menu of a WinXP Home setup so I don't have to boot into safe mode next time to access it.