Accessing Vista administrator files - gaah.

[Meenzer 15527]

Back for more punishment...

 

After my recent problems, I've decided to revert from Vista to a simpler XP setup, which is now installed and basically running fine.

 

I've also got my old Vista HD currently running as a second drive, and was hoping to be able to simply copy across the contents of My Documents etc. for use on the new system.

 

However, I can't access the ...Users\Meenzer\ section of the old drive (which was also the Administrator account), even when logged in as Administrator on the new system - I just get a standard "... is not accessible. Access is denied" error.

 

I presume it's protected in some way, as the directories for the older (non-Administrator) accounts are accessible, but I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem given that I'm not running Windows from the older drive. Apparently so, though.

 

Any ideas?

[Meenzer 15527]

Never mind - I've sorted it. Should have Googled first really.

 

Feel free to delete this.

[Tom 14011]

Vista is evil like

[Meenzer 15527]

I quite like[d] it, but I've yet to meet anyone who'd really agree. And it's incompatible with several bits of cracked software, which is reason enough to regress to XP and wait for Microsoft's next earth-shattering mistake.

[Tom 14011]

It is there solely to make people pay for things I'm sure

[Fop 1]

I quite like[d] it, but I've yet to meet anyone who'd really agree. And it's incompatible with several bits of cracked software, which is reason enough to regress to XP and wait for Microsoft's next earth-shattering mistake.