Re: accessing documents in "My Documents"

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:00:25 +1000

Type taking ownership in help. 

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David Candy
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"Arvind Ganesan" <arvind@uclid.com> wrote in message news:#a1JBD6SDHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> 
> I have two machines at home, both running Windows XP.  One of the machines
> just died - I called the hardware vendor's tech support - and they are
> sending me a new motherboard - which will take about 10 business days.
> 
> In the meantime, I want to access data on the harddrive of the dead machine.
> I installed the harddrive as a slave harddrive in the working machine.  I'm
> able to access all folders in the harddrive, except for the "My documents"
> folder, which I had setup to be private and non-shared among users.  When I
> try to access that folder from my current working machine, I get the error
> message "Access is denied".  I know the username and password associated
> with the user whose "My Documents" folder I am trying to access.  Is there
> any way I can access that folder?
> 
> On a side note, if I make the harddrive of my dead machine as the master
> drive of my working machine, what are the consequences?  The two machines
> have radically different hardware (one was purchased recently, and one back
> in 1998) - will XP boot properly given that all the hardware has changed?
> Will there be any problems with the XP licensing given that the hardware has
> totally changed?  Once my dead machine is alive again, will I have a problem
> putting this harddrive back in there as the master drive if I try to make it
> the master drive of my current working machine?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Arvind.
> 
>

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