Issues copying files with SimpleTech external drive.

[mbs...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I have a SimpleTech external hard drive ( formatted as NTFS ), and a
few days ago I needed to reformat my PC ( Windows XP ), so I copied my
docs, my pictures, etc, to this external drive. So far so good. After
I reformatted my PC ( again installed Win XP ), I tried to copy the
files back to this PC from the external drive, but I couldn't do it
for all the files, some files could be copied, and some not ( about
50/50 ). The error message for the stubborn files was:

Warning: access denied.

Many files were read only, they couldn't be copied or moved elsewhere
due to some permission issues. I tried for a few days, tried to log in
in safe mode, turned the permissions "allow" for all, but no results.
I tried moving/copying the files under linux, but the same exact
issue, some files can be copied/moved and some not, same error
message:

You don't have permission for this action.

Can't even change permissions as root, and I'm stuck now !

Any ideas what else should I try, anything I need to change ?

Thanks.

[mbs...@gmail.com]

Oh, forgot to mention that under linux I tried just to tar or zip all
the files, so I could copy them all in one shot, but that would
produce the same permission errors.

Appreciate any comment !

Thanks again.

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

mbs...@gmail.com schrieb:

> I reformatted my PC ( again installed Win XP ), I tried to copy the
> files back to this PC from the external drive, but I couldn't do it
> for all the files, some files could be copied, and some not ( about
> 50/50 ). The error message for the stubborn files was:
>
> Warning: access denied.

Use Windows (as admin) to grant everybody access to the files. This can
become a very extensive action, in one case I had to give all rights to
everybody for every directory, down from the root directory to every
single file - a CACL issue? :-(

When the files are not too big, use an FAT drive to backup your files
the next time. Or compress them to a zip or tgz archive, and backup only
the archive - many archive formats have no detailed access rights for
their contained files.

Using a pre-XP Windows version also can help, because I also noticed
newer Windows versions to corrupt files and access rights on external
drives. A physical read-only switch also may help to have Windows keep
off its hands from backup drives...

DoDi

[mbs...@gmail.com]

On May 4, 12:17 pm, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
> mbsa...@gmail.com schrieb:

Hi,

Thanks for your input !

No luck so far, I logged in safe mode, went into the external drive
and changed the permissions to full control for everyone in the
security tab of this drive ( in its properties ), but I still
experienced the same issues as above - access denied for some files.
Maybe I'm not doing it the right way. Do I have to change anything in
this approach or is there any dos command line ( I tried XCOPY, no
luck :( ) that I can try ?

> When the files are not too big, use an FAT drive to backup your files
> the next time. Or compress them to a zip or tgz archive, and backup only
> the archive - many archive formats have no detailed access rights for
> their contained files.

Definitely, next time I'll archive the files before backing up, less
headaches !

Thanks again.