Locked User Dirs under XP

Install of XP Professional was overwritten by a fresh install of XP Home due to absolute no-other-way necessity.

The orginal user accounts, found under c:\documents and settings\, were:
Administrator
All Users
David

Attempting to access Administrator or All Users via the new Windows install is fine, but attempting to access the David folder gives 'Access Denied'. The same happens under SafeMode Command Prompt. I can't use Old DOS because the partition is NTFS.

The new user accounts, also found under c:\documents and settings\, are:
Administrator.ARCHIVE
All Users.WINDOWS
David.ARCHIVE

I just want to copy the Old David Files, into the new David.ARCHIVE folder. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

Thank you

Yup indeed, David and David.ARCHIVE are both admin accounts.

 

Take ownership of 'David' from an admin-level account, then you should have full access:

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

 

No problem, just call me "Mr. Take Ownership"






Uh oh... if Kodo sees this I could end up with that as my title...

 

stealing my thunder? shame on you

 

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