Re: XP FOLDER PROTECTION
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:20:44 -0700
pmadesclaire wrote:
I try to access my old XP disk from a new XP PC (as my old video card died) using a USB enclosure, my user name was "admin" on both.
Using the same username on both PCs really doesn't mean anything to the computers. User account login names are nothing more than conveniences for us carbon-based life forms - the computer actually uses the Security Identifier (SID) for authentication, and each SID is unique, even if the two accounts have the same login name.
I can access all folders and files of the external disk except "f:\Documents and Settings\admin" which is precisely the one I need.
If you hadn't encrypted the data files (and marking a folder private is something completely different from encryption), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421
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