Re: How to Access Folder When Transferring Drive

On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:28:35 -0500, Davy
<me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in
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ile.org:

On Tue, 06 May 2008 13:35:08 -0500, Davy
<me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My Win2000 PC died so I have built a replacement XP
machine. I swapped the drive with the data to the new
machine.
One of the folders had security settings to prevent
anyone
but me opening it.
Now I can't open the folder even if I am logged in
with
exactly the same user name and password as on my old
machine, even if I switch to an account with
administrator
rights.

As admin, right click on the secured folder, and go to
the security
tab. Can you fix the permissions problems here?

You may need to press the Advanced button and then in
the Owner tab
change the owner to yourself, and tick "replace" at
the bottom too.

I get the error "An error occurred while reconnecting
to E
to \\oldcomputername\data on oldcomputername.
Microsoft
Windows Network: The local device name is already in
use.
This connection has not been restored"

This is an inappropriate error, and should only ever
happen with
network mapped drives. Since you say the new machine
wasn't built til
after the old machine died, I've no idea how you
managed to get that.

If you did have them both up at the same time, you
could have mapped
\\old\data as E: succesfully, and now Explorer is
still showing this
mapping but cannot reach \\old because it's defunct.
So if the E: is
showing up as \\old\data, you should go to
Tools/Disconnect Network
Drive and remove it.

You may be in a situation that the real drive is not
actually visible,
and the mapped E: is confusing you. After getting rid
of the mapped
drive, right click on My Computer, Manage... and go to
Disk
Management. Find the new disk, make sure Windows is
looking at it (if
it says "foreign disk" right click and Import or
Activate or something
obvious) and then check the assigned drive letter.

Cheers - Jaimie

Jaimie,
you are a genious! For brevity I had left out from my
original post that the data drive had been transferred
to a Vista PC for a week whilst I was building my new XP
machine. During the build I mapped the data drive on my
XP - and then physically moved it when the XP machine
was fully set up. When I turned on the XP machine
Windows reported that it could not find the mapped E:
drive on the Vista machine and so I clicked OK thinking
that was the end of it. I then assigned a drive letter
e: to the data drive.

That's still pretty bizarre that Windows overlaid the old mapped drive
on top of the new physical E: partition, I've never seen that before.

Right so now, having done the tools/disconnect, I have
access again to my folder and its contents. The strange
thing is though that most of the pictures (jpgs) in the
folder have become unreadable by any of the five
graphics programs I have - header not recognise is
reported by Irfanview.

Odd! Now I have to sort that.

Do they show in Explorer thumbnail view? You may still have problems
with permissions - maybe you haven't got read access to the file
content currently. Right-click/properties on a troublesome file and
have alook in the Security tab. If that's it, go to the root folder
again and make changes there to be inherited all the way down the
tree.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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