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

Hello,

This could be due to a rights issue with the directory in question. One
of the things about the NTFS file system (as opposed to the FAT file system)
is that it maintains a complex set of permissions which state what sort of
access rights a user or a group has to each object on the disk volume, called
the Access Control List, or ACL for short.

Typically, documents which are created by a specific user are owned by them
and cannot be accessed by another user unless the permissions are changed
on them.

To get around this, you need to change ownership of the files. Microsoft
provides a script called the Extended Change Access Control List which
allows you to do this. More information, including a download link and
usage instructions, can be found at:

   <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825751>

on Microsoft's support web site.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky

At 11:08 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:

>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:17:03 -0500
>From: awebber@wwwebbers.com
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB
> external elsewhere)
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <3595029.728331169230623929.JavaMail.servlet@perfora>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
>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 20:32:30 2007