My Documents Transfer Error - Access Denied
Sep 7, 2009
operating system went corrupt on the primary SATA HD in my rig and I was forced to <skips the pointless stuff>...basically here I am installing a fresh XP on a new internal. Meanwhile, I hooked up the old HD to an external to rip off the files. good news is that it was able to be read and I could pull off the files. Program files with preferences for my ggames, pretty much everything... EXCEPT My Documents for the primary user (Brian). It says access is denied to this folder, and is marked as read only. Basically, I need a way to get into that folder and get the information out of it. It has all my school/work files (most of which are backed up but some I need), and I'm not exactly sure how to go about that.
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Aug 19, 2008
Read a similar post, but resetting system preferences and "taking control" didn't work. Windows XP laptop
1. His board is fried
2. took hard drive out, put in enclosure
3. transferring data to another external Hard Drive
4. when attempting to transfer "documents" he gets an access denied read out
5. Says he has no option to change system preferences
6. "taking control" hasn't worked
7. right clicking etc. hasn't worked
8. says when he tries to view documents he gets a "documents empty" read out and there is nothing there
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Sep 25, 2008
I recently had a computer crash and die, it was an old computer, I don't know what went wrong, I don't really care now because I realize it was old and got a new computer. Anyway I knew my hard drive was still good and I have important data on it that I needed, so i removed it and bought a hard drive enclosure. I hooked it up to my new computer and everything is coming up fine, but my "e://documents and settings/owner/" folder. That was the administrative account document folder that I used for my work. When I try to open it it's giving my an 'Access Denied" error. I can access all the other accounts just fine.
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Apr 1, 2005
My Documents comes up with an error (C:Documents and Settingsuser is not accessible. Access is denied")
I dont see how this can be because i am the administrator and the only account on the PC.
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Oct 17, 2007
I have two computers, on one computer there is a irrepairable version of windows, and I still had some files I wanted to save. So I bought a hard drive enclosure so I could transfer the files onto my laptop, the one I'm using right now. However I used to have a password for my account, and my files were marked private. Now when I try to go into those files, it says 'Access Denied' I was wondering if there was anyway to go around this obstacle, those files are needed.
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Sep 9, 2005
I have a friend using WinXP SP1. They had a problem and the Computer would no longer boot up. Had to do a fix found on KB Site that copied "WindowsSystem32ConfigSystem and 4 other files. The computer then worked again as before, however it overwrote something, and the user can see all files on system, except the original "My Documents" folder. When I Click on it, it says a message along the lines of "Access Denied" I forget the exact error message. The other thing that happened is that none of the programs are available any more. eg: Office Products show Icons, but are not available to use.
How can we get the files in this folder back. It is the only Folder that is important, and the data will be copied to a CD and then I will have to format and reinstall all programs.
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Jun 10, 2005
I've got a question regarding my windows xp home edition machine. I've got a couple of user accounts on the machine. One is my own administrator account, called my name. I've also got a Guest account and another account called Games. My account has a password but none of the others do. In addition to these there is this mysterious "Administrator account" on my machine. When I try to log in as "Administrator" it won't let me. It tells me that I don't have proper access or something like that. What really bothers me is when I go to C:/Documents and Setting/All Users I cannot open the Documents folder. It says it's not accessible and "access is denied." I have trouble installing stuff sometimes because nothing can access this folder (and there could be others I'm not sure). Is the Administrator account the problem?
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Feb 23, 2006
I am trying to open a user folder on a backup image I have.It is an Acronis True Image backup and mounts a virtual drive you can then access.The error I receive when trying to open the 'user' folder is:G:Documents and Settingsuser is not accessible.Access Is Denied I have tried to turn of simple file sharing and add my the administrator to the permission but am not able to.The Add... Button is greyed out. If i go to the Advanced section and Owner tab.
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Apr 20, 2006
After the installation of windows xp the access to my computer is denied
i have followed the instructions until "click to clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box" because there appears to be no check box under this description.
I have over 20gig of ireplaceable files in this folder i would really appreciate some more assistance.
I'm using Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition sp2
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Jun 18, 2005
My computer died so I took the harddrive out and put it in my other computer as a second drive (not the drive to boot from). Now everything under the F:Documents & SettingsLen" directory cannot be accessed. If I look at the "Len" directory and all of it's subdirectories on the second drive "Make this folder private" is not check so I don't understand why I can't read it. In fact the "Make this folder private" is not checked. If it helps any the drive is an NTFS drive.
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May 2, 2007
My dad accidentally installed Windows XP Over the current working Windows XP Service Pack 2.THis is on an old laptop which has some important school work which I have been trying to get copied to memory stick but with no luck.My dad thought the laptop was running ever so slow and thought that reinstalling XP would make it quicker again.Now after it has done, the laptop not running well at all.It loads but when you choose ANY user account it loads up till the desktop and nothing happens after that. THe start menu and icons don't show up. Its like its got nothing else to load. The task manager can be run (control+alt+del) and everything is responding. have also tried running it in safe mode but the same still happens.THe closest I have got was to use the XP disk and use the recovery console and try to use the command promp to copy the documents and settingsmy documents into the memory stick but when it tries to go to documents and settings it says that the access is denied .
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Jul 14, 2005
I have some cd's which I cannot access on my XP system. When I try to read one of the CDs, but there is a message stating "SONIC DLA - your version of DLA can read files on this disc but you will not be able to edit or add to them". When I try to accessing the other CD, there is an error message stating "d: is not accessible. access is denied". I did try to install UDF Reader, but I still couldn't access the CDs.
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Jan 24, 2007
I remember seeing this posted a few weeks ago and wondered if anyone else has come across the problem or a solution. After using MSCONFIG and applying changes I get the message "An access denied error was returned while attempting to change a service you may need to log on using an administrator account to make the specified changes".
I've searched high and low and can't find any real reason.. And I'm the only account on my pc. Now for a new twist.. Today when I went by to do some maintainance on a business network out of curiosity I tried MSCONFIG on the computers there and lo and behold they all did the same thing.. These computers have nothing in common with mine as far as firewalls, antivirus, etc. (which I had read might be the culprit). The only thing I know that all have in common is they have all recently have had all Windows updates installed
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Aug 20, 2005
When I click run and type in msconfig, I get a message saying Access Denied, need administrator privileges, etc.The thing is...I'm already logged in as Administrator automatically and even the icon in the Start menu shows this.
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Aug 19, 2005
When I hit Start | Run | Ms config, it tells me that access is denied and that I may need to log on as Administrator to make program changes. Only, I'm already logged in as Administrator!What's going on here and how do I fix this so I can run Ms config? I'm running WinXP Home with SP2.
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Apr 25, 2009
I have a desktop machine with XP pro and whenever i try to install SP3, i get an "Access is denied" message about half way through the installation.
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Mar 4, 2010
this morning i went to use my desktop computer, and much to my chagrin, apparently I have been denied access to all my programs and files. I suspect that it may have to do with the windows updater, because when i try and log into my user account, i get an error message mentioning registry issues. My computer was runing fine last night when I went to sleep. 'my efforts thus far'= I can run safe mode, and have done a system restore, a malware program sweep, checked user accounts and various programs; and all allow full access to the 'trouble account' according to safe mode. In short, My main account is in lockdown, my safe mode works. The majority of error messages refer to 'denied access' and upon trying to log iin a get the error message '0x80070005'. I have googled my heart out trying to solve this myself, and apparently Microsoft wants 60$ to even hear my problem,
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Jan 29, 2006
Received 'access denied' error when upgrading to SP2. After I clicked OK, SP2 uninstalled itself.
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May 24, 2005
Just set up a new PC (Dell XPS Gen 4) and was running OK for a week with just myself as user with admin rights.
Decided to add limited accounts for wife & kids.
Every time the accounts are logged in to, they get the error message - Error - Access Denied. The process for this is LVCOMSX.EXE somethin to do with the logitech webcam me thinks.
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Dec 5, 2006
I just recently tried making changes to the startup using msconfig to try to fix a different problem, and in doing so, came across another. Whenever I try to make a change to the startup, I get a "an access denied error was returned while attempting to change a service. You may need to log on using an Administrator account to make the specified changes".
However, I am the administrator when I'm making these changes.
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Aug 20, 2005
Why doesn't this forum bump posts when you reply to them? What good does it do me to reply when the thread keeps sinking
Anyway...I did a search on my computer and have only found these 2 files relating to msconfig
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Jan 7, 2006
I have managed to repair the OS (XP Home) but am still experiencing one or two problems. The main one at the moment is that though it has downloaded and successfully installed 33 MS Critical Updates it is not able to install Service Pack 2. It gets about half way through installing SP2 and then brings up an "Access Denied" Error.
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Aug 27, 2007
I'm running XP Pro, finally updating to SP2. About halfway through I get the "Access is denied" error message. I followed Microsoft's instructions to locate the registry subkey causing the problem, however (as shown in the attached picture) the problem isn't in the usual vnd.ms.radio (infact, that file isn't mentioned at all in the setupapi file), but in the DependOnService. Problem is, it doesn't exist under the directories listed. As shown in the second uploaded picture, it's not in the SSDPSRV directory itself, and the only subdirectories are a pyramid of jibberish (none of which contain anything except a "(Default)" value).
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Aug 1, 2005
Windows XP SP2 will begin installation, but about midway through the install,
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Sep 9, 2007
I own a SONY VAIO desktop PC, and I'm trying to install the XP Service Pack 2. However, whenever I try to, either when prompted by Windows Automatic Update or when I do it on Microsoft's website, the installation would always pause midway and return with an "Access is Denied" dialogue box. Microsoft's website had something regarding this issue --http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148 -- but under Step 2, I couldn't find any specific registry key that resembled the one that was given Quote: The found entry in the Setupapi.log file should be similar to the following example: #-007 Deleting registry key HKCRvnd.ms.radio #E033 Error 5: Access is denied. This is what I see in the setupapi.log text file:
Code: #E008 Setting registry value HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesssdpsrv\DependOnService#E033 Error 5: Access is denied.#E065 Parsing AddReg section [Product.Add.Reg]......................
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Aug 2, 2005
I have a Dell Optiplex GX270 with Windows XP Professional SP2.In the past,I've installed device drivers for scanners, external DVD drives,modems, software, etc. I'm currently having trouble installing a device driver for an 802.11g PCI card.The hardware is found by the "Found New Hardware Wizard", but fails to install with "Error 5: Access is denied" the setupapi log shows that it couldn't properly write to the registry. My account has Administrator privileges. I've tried to completely uninstall and reinstall the driver, and the same fault occurs. Obviously, every time the machine boots, the same problem cycles through again.I've been trying to resolve this with the vendor, who is probably just as confused as me, because it looks to be an issue with the OS.
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Dec 29, 2005
I'm trying to repair a xp installation and when I use the recommened solution I get access denied. Any thoughts as to what I can do. Thanks
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Sep 17, 2005
I finally decided to install the service pack 2. During the install I keep getting messages of the form: Service pack 2 could not back up registry key
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Dec 15, 2006
I'l running xp pro - sp2 I'm having a problem deleting the below folder because the "epilogue.ps" file is being used and I get a access denied error.Adobe 6.0 has been uninstalled. C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersDocumentsAdobe PDF 6.0Dataepilogue.ps I tried running in safe mode to delete but it is already running and can't be deleted. I've have a log of items running below
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Nov 5, 2008
i just recently bought a new ipod and i need to install itunes but first I have to update my windows xp to service pack 2 or higher everytime I try i get the install halfway then the access denied message pops up. I tried the various solutions i found on google and its still doing it, I even d/led registry mechanic and clean and repair all my registry and its still doing access denied error.
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Feb 10, 2008
I receive an error message c_437.nls missing or corrupted. I booted with windows boot cd and go into recovery console. When I try to copy the file c_437.nls from windows boot cd to windows system 32 directory to overwrite the file.When I try this i get access denied. How do I logon as administrator to fix this file in recovery console. I don't have a password for my administrator account.
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