Re: off topic: Windows problem

Access denied reading from the harddrive, or writing to the usb drive?

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Rose McGillicuddy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>  On 09/13/2010 08:00 PM, Erin Drummond wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would use your linux LiveCD to mount the local harddrive and extract
>> all the relevant data off it (to another computer/usb drive/external
>> harddrive etc). In my experience, trying to debug windows problems is
>> impossible, you'll never get it working quite right again. So, after
>> extracting her data, just do a complete format/reinstall (of linux, if
>> you dont want to deal with these kinds of problems again) and copy the
>> data back when its done.
>>
>> Also, if you think the hard drive is failing, see here:
>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-find-out-if-harddisk-failing.html
>>
>> Erin
>
> Thanks Erin.
>
> Attempted to copy files to USB drive but get access denied.  I mounted it,
> but still same message.
>
> Thanks Rose
>
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