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

Thanks Bruce, I didn't think there should be anything special about the folder once it's drive N:, except perhaps read-only or something (but not read-not!).

The original symptom that led to the call to IBM was that the screen is locking up shortly after start-up, in a couple of cases it went blank, in one it went white with some vertical blue lines, and in one case I got BSOD and an error at ati2[something] driver (I wrote it down but don't have in front of me). Thus my conclusion it was the screen/driver.

I'm copying what I can, though pretty much all my data is below the folder that's locked. :(

=aw

>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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Received on Fri Jan 19 13:38:50 2007