How can I hack into my own (old) "My docs" folder?

[absinthe]

Well color me embarrassed.

I've put together a new machine and am using an all-new (SATA) hard drive. I decided I would just hook my old drives to the new machine's IDE adaptors and copy all my old files to the new 300 GB drive.

Anyway, I it won't let me copy my own old "My Documents" files (i.e., Documents and Settings/my_old_username) from the old drive. It's apparently still "protected." Trying to change the attributes or "share" it doesn't work, either.

Using WinXP Pro w/SP2, BTW.

How can I get into these files? I seem to recall an old (ancient, really) DOS util called "LLIST.EXE" that would basically show you anything and let you do anything, but that dates back to Win 3.1. I've tried Total Commander, BTW, and that doesn't work either.

heeelllp :0

thx,

-abs

 

[birdpup]

Have you tried booting into your previous system on the old hard drive and copying those files into another directory that is not protected?

 

[amdskip]

You need to take ownership rights of the directories.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

 

[absinthe]

Thanks guys! Found what I was looking for here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

-abs