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Hi,

My wife just got a new HP with Vista Home Premium installed, so in order for her to keep her old XP files, I put her old hard drive in the box as a slave, and Vista has no problem accessing the drive or copying regular files - but it won't let her copy any files from her old "My Doccuments" folder. I have tried taking ownsership, setting "Everyone" permission to full, auditing, etc, but every time she tries to copy any of the files to her Vista drive, she gets "Need permission" error.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
D.

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