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geekguy

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I made an image with Arconis Trueimage of a buddies laptop because it was really hosed. I figured he may as well start over, and that this was the easiest way to backup his data. However, I have a problem. When I get to his documents and settings user folder, I don't have permissions. It shows the numerical representation of what I assume was his xp account. How do I take ownership or override this so I can copy out his files? Can I add that user manually to my machine somehow? Thanks.
 
The problem is that I don't have permission to take ownership or edit the permissions. His UID and SYSTEM are the only things with any rights to the files.
 
Originally posted by: Navid
Did you follow the instructions on that link to take ownership first?
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When I go to the owner tab an error box pops up and says I only have permissions to view the current owner.

I was thinking I could somehow manually add his UID to my machine and then log into that to backup the files. Maybe this isn't possible.

I suppose I could also write the partition out to my HD and then try to modify the permissions. Perhaps because I just have the disk image virtually mounted to a drive letter with acronis it won't let me edit permissions. I'll try this and post again if that doesn't work out.
 
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