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I've hooked up old HD's before and copied files for backup, usually booting up both with IDE cables inside the box. I now have one of those converters that allows IDE/Laptopm/SATA drives to patch in via USB. Whenever I try to copy some files over it keeps giving me an Admin Rights error and won't copy. Even to see the files I had to go through some screwy Admin Rights/ ownership crap.
The old HD is my Mom's main boot HD and it's getting old and I need to backup some work files for her. Hers won't even boot right now and I'd rather not go through a repair install, just copy some files and trash it (40gig). It's NTFS with XD Pro on it. I've tried the USB routine with both a Vista64 machine and another XP Pro machine. No dice. I can't even open the files to do a "Save As"! Keeps giving me "you don't have rights" to this file.
Yes, I'm logged in a Admin on my own machines. I'm sure my Mom had several accounts on hers, but I don't even see anywhere to input a password for the second HD. Will I have better luck connecting it via IDE? I do have it jumped as a slave drive to ensure it didn't try to boot or something (doubtful, but being safe as it did have some malware on it I had to clean!), maybe it should stay as a master since it's the only IDE (USB?) drive on the machine?
The old HD is my Mom's main boot HD and it's getting old and I need to backup some work files for her. Hers won't even boot right now and I'd rather not go through a repair install, just copy some files and trash it (40gig). It's NTFS with XD Pro on it. I've tried the USB routine with both a Vista64 machine and another XP Pro machine. No dice. I can't even open the files to do a "Save As"! Keeps giving me "you don't have rights" to this file.
Yes, I'm logged in a Admin on my own machines. I'm sure my Mom had several accounts on hers, but I don't even see anywhere to input a password for the second HD. Will I have better luck connecting it via IDE? I do have it jumped as a slave drive to ensure it didn't try to boot or something (doubtful, but being safe as it did have some malware on it I had to clean!), maybe it should stay as a master since it's the only IDE (USB?) drive on the machine?