Re: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB externalelsewhere)

Access should not be denied if used as an external drive, as it is not part
of the operating system. You may have corrupted files, or a bad hard drive.
I suggest you save what you can and try a complete wipe and re-install
before you send it in. I would normally suspect bad memory, but in this
case, the hard drive is not acting properly in another machine, so I think
you need to focus on the hard drive, either bad or corrupted.
Download and run the drive fitness test, that may be of some help.
----- Original Message -----
From: <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB
externalelsewhere)

> My T41p is acting up. It's either a hardware problem with the screen or a
software problem with a video driver. Before they'll service it, IBM wants
me to update all the drivers.
>
> That's reasonable enough, but since the symptom is locking up a minute or
two after boot (sometimes sooner) even in Safe Mode (well, it happened the
one time I tried it in Safe Mode, apart from the dozen or so with a normal
boot), I want to back up my files first.
>
> Shouldn't be too hard, I took the internal drive (whatever IBM offered as
a 60Gb, 7200RPM) out and hooked it up to a USB port on a desktop machine.
The latter recognized it right away.
>
> The problem is that I can copy many files from drive N: (my notebook's C:
drive) but not all, including N:\Documents and Settings\Andrew (!) for which
I get the message that it "...is not accessible. Access is denied.".
>
> Until a month ago I had most of my data in C:\DATA (holdover from the old
days) and only recently moved it under "My Documents". :(
>
> Why would the folder be inaccessible? I created an account on this desktop
machine with the name "Andrew" and the same password, to no avail. Is it
likely because the notebook has been shutting down abnormally? If I can get
it to stay up long enough to shut down, am I likely to have access to this
folder? Or is there something more insidious going on?
>
> Thanks!
> =aw
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