Help Somebody...Vista
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Paul Selormey wrote:
the drive is currently my main storage of files. There is not even a backup yet
Are you nuts? you're spending hours fiddling with access rights and settings on some data you don't consider important enough to have a backup? get serious, go buy a new external disk, format it on Vista, load a few files, check all is fine on all Windows versions you use, then copy all files. :)
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Thanks for your great input, I really appreciate it.
Luc Pattyn wrote:
Are you nuts?
You should have used the bold, so that it will punch my brain :-D
Luc Pattyn wrote:
you're spending hours fiddling with access rights and settings on some data you don't consider important enough to have a backup?
Really, I did not even think about it. :((
Luc Pattyn wrote:
get serious, go buy a new external disk, format it on Vista, load a few files, check all is fine on all Windows versions you use, then copy all files.
Yeah, I was doing something silly - nice you did not say it! :) I have just recently bought this external drive, copied the contents of another external drive that collapsed, packed other contents on my old PC, so that I could gradually transfer them to my new PC. It is a transition state, but I still needed to code :(( Best regards, Paul.
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I am getting frustrated now. It is taken me weeks to move to Vista, but now it is all frustrations. I have this big USB external hard drive, which I use to store all my data on my old PC running XP. I have now connected this to the new PC running Vista, and Vista is refusing to allow me to save my projects. I googled and found that even though I run as administrator, I still have to add my user account and give it administrator level right to be able to freely access the drive. I did and it took about 6 hours to change the security on each file on the drive. But, now here I am, it is still not working. I have already disabled the UAC, is there anything else to disable on this silly OS so that I can have my freedom to work? I cannot even view CHM (help files) on this drive, but drag them to the desktop and it is viewable - what is this whole mess? I moved to Vista SP2 on my new PC so that I could update to Windows 7, I do not know what to do now. Please help. I care less about aero or whatever, I just want to work. :confused: Best regards, Paul.
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