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Hi
If you copied the original data from the old laptop drive to your Fedora machine, then there are several ways of transferring the data to the laptop.
Network the Fedora box and new laptop together and copy the files over.
Burn the files to CD/DVD and transfer them over.
The permissions problem would appear, from the sound of it, to be that the old XP user name and the new Vista user name aren't recognised by Vista as being the same user. Could it just be as simple as a slightly different user name, which is causing your Vista permissions problem?
Mad Malc
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| No Malc, The data isn't on the Fedora Machine, the Fedora machine is now out of the picture [ from the point of view of the laptop data recovery anyway], and I have the hard drive of the old laptop connected by USB in a 2'5" external drive bay to a second laptop running Vista Home Premium. Anytime I try to copy any data accross from the external drive, it says that I don't have permission. Thanks John
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Pentium
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Okay,
So you seem to have a Vista permissions problem, how about using a Linux Live CD, like PCLinuxOS 2008 Minime, to boot the laptop with the external drive attached and then see if you can:
- copy the files to the laptop hard drive.
- change the permissions on the external hard drive
Hope this helps.
Mad Malc
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cocorico (19/08/2008)
Anytime I try to copy any data accross from the external drive, it says that I don't have permission. Does it say you don't have permission to copy, or to paste? Have you tried making a new folder on your desktop and pasting the data there? Or possibly try running Explorer as Admin and see if that helps.
I think it was Captain CAD who posted a trick for XP where you turn off simple file sharing, then can change ownership of a file / folder so it can be accessed by anyone, but I can't remember the exact steps of how to do it.
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| Right click on the file / folder / whatever and choose properties / security tab. See if you can change permissons here, if not you'll have to take ownership and to do that press the advanced button / owner tab.
Dave R
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