please help :'(

[Illuminae]

i am having serious computer issues. i was up last night till 7:30 am trying to fix thsi dam thing, i dunno whats wrong. please help me..

i just got a new computer, and have been compressing all my stuff from the old one into rars, burning it on backup disks, and moving it to the new one.

in order to stay organized, i put my stuff in several folders on the old one and decided to just archive the whole folders (ex. flash, images, programs)

this is fine, only, some fo the folders were larger then 700m, so i split them up into volumes using winRAR's volume feature.

i tried to then unzip them onto the new computer from the disk, which it does fine. but then, i cant get INTO the folder, it says Access Denied. I also cant DELETE the folder. once again, access denied. i get that error like if you try to rename or delete something when the file is open.

so i tried making sure no pther proggys were open that could be using it.
i tried shutting off most of the services in task manager in case one of them was using it.
i tried rebooting.
i tried going in from "Administrator" account and deleting them.
i tried going into safemode and deleting them.
i tried renaming them.
i tried rebooting again.

basically, i cant think of anything else. now i have a poopload of stuff that i NEED off my new computer, and i cant do it. i cant do anything else till i switch data so basically, im a day behind in work and im screwed. everyone says to reformat, but there has GOT to be a better way.

just a note: i tried my other, non-split vollume rars, and they work just fine. its only the split volume ones that killed my new puter.

please, please, please, you guys are geniouses on here. some1 please knwo what to do.

thanks guys.

[grandsp5]

ugh. sounds really really messy. You might be able to get at them through dos commands and see what you can do there. I'm not a DOS person though but I think I have seen it done.

[DigitalPimp]

HAHA!! You have windows2k+ permissions on those folders from your old computer. I don't know of any way of fixing that easily. Try making your computer the same name and workgroup as your old 1. Then create an account on your new computer that is the same as the account on your old computer. It may trick it but I'm not hopeful...

Why didn't you just network the 2 computers together or take the HD out and put it in the new 1??

[Illuminae]

i coudlnt network them cuz one is win xp pro and one is winxp home. digipimp, lemme try that...

[grandsp5]

I have 3 computers at home networked. One is pro, 2 are home. Seems to work.

[Illuminae]

hwo do i change the workgroup? its greyed out when i go to change the name

[Illuminae]

Originally posted by grandsp5
I have 3 computers at home networked. One is pro, 2 are home. Seems to work.

yeah? cool. some1 told me there was a bug in home that wouldnt let it happen..

guess you cant always believe stuf... lol

its ok though, i wanted my stuff backed up anyway.

[DigitalPimp]

Which 1 is on Home XP? Home XP sucks for networking because it is either open or closed. There is no such thing as NT permissions...

[Illuminae]

i wanan try the dos thingie, anyone know how to?

[Illuminae]

the old one is home, the new one is pro.

[DigitalPimp]

Command Prompt (DOS is dead) isn't going to work. You are getting accessed denied because you don't have permission to those files...

[grandsp5]

you would have to learn all the dos prompts :( all i know is you type dir a lot ;) it might not be worth learning, you may just reformat.

[DigitalPimp]

Oh k!

First open up any folder
Go to Tools - Folder Options - Move to the View Tab

Scroll down and uncheck Simple File Sharing

Then right-click on any folder that you don't have access to and move to the security tab and I'm tell me what users have access to that folder... I am going to almost guarntee that the everyone group is missing...

[Illuminae]

so pimp.. what now? sigh

***redGolgi is lookin at the windows disc thinking about reformatting

[DigitalPimp]

Originally posted by grandsp5
you would have to learn all the dos prompts :( all i know is you type dir a lot ;) it might not be worth learning, you may just reformat.

DOS is dead!!!! It's command prompt

[Illuminae]

pimp: i get an alert when i click on the tab that says : you do not have permission to veiw or edit the current permission settings for "programs" but you can take ownership or change auditing settings...

[grandsp5]

ok ok. command prompts then

[Illuminae]

and your right, everyone folder is missing. no one is there. not even admin.

[DigitalPimp]

Try to take ownership of the folder then...

[Illuminae]

HOOLY **** WHOA WAIT A SEC JSUT HOLD ON I THINK I MAY HAVE FIXED IT

[Illuminae]

PIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG,,,,

WHEN I COME TO CALI IM TELLING ALL MY HOT FRIENDS THAT YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG BIG BIG HUGS TO DIGITALPIMP!!!!!! HE IS MY HEEEEEEEEEEEERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Illuminae]

<3

[DigitalPimp]

you are welcome.... Why you gotta wait tell you come here. Just let them know now.. ;) :p:

[Illuminae]

<3

[Illuminae]

Originally posted by DigitalPimp
you are welcome.... Why you gotta wait tell you come here. Just let them know now.. ;) :p:


lol, i dont have any chick friends in cali yet silly, only people i know, i'm sure you wouldnt want them after you

(think boys and bois hehehehe)

[DigitalPimp]

Then get some ****it!

[Illuminae]

pimp, i have a question..

i already rared ALL of my files, will i be able to change owenership on ANY computer? or is it just this one cuz i have admin rights? or is it only on xp pro? if there is a prob with my files id rather just remake them then have to deal with backups that dont work.. heh

[Illuminae]

pimp, come into mIRC, i have something for you

[DigitalPimp]

First off, everytime you take them out of the RAR they won't have an owner so you'll have to fix that each time you take them out of rar.

Second, I can't go into IRC, I'm @ work. You can PM me on here.

[Niann]

If the files are installed without ownership, then you ahould be able to take ownership of the files when they are unpacked onto any computer.

Cheers!
-Niann

[Illuminae]

thanks niann! :D

[SureShot]

Great work Pimp :)

[teet]

redgolgi...to save you some time the NEXT time you get a new computer, it's a lot easier to copy stuff straight from your old harddrive to your new harddrive

just physically take out your old harddrive and hook it into your new machine (set your old hdd as slave and your new hdd as master) then boot up to windows. create a new folder on your C: drive called "oldhdd" or something like that. then go into your command prompt, switch to the D: drive (or whatever letter the old harddrive is) and type "xcopy *.* c:\oldhdd /c /h /e /k"

sorry i didn't respond to this sooner...could have saved you A LOT of time :)

-teet

[DigitalPimp]

If you notice, I already said that....

[Illuminae]

:D thanks dudes

[teet]

If you notice, I already said that....

yes, but you didn't tell her how to do it

-teet