Copying hard drive contents, access is denied

[googlemad]

My mind has gone blank

Basically got several small old hard drives with data on (Including in some cases Windows XP installs from the machines they came out of!) that I need to dump into a folder on my machine, so I just select all and do a copy into required folder.

Which works fine until it finds a locked file that gives an 'Access is Denied' message then stops the whole copy process!

Any way to just make it skip such files?

[EduTech]

if you right click on the folder, and go to security tab > advanced > ownership and select yourself (administrator) to take full ownership, apply this to sub files and folders *check box

failing that, boot the machine into a linux distro, mount the volume *external hard disk* and copy the files that way, then it cancels out all of the windows permissions.

Hope that helps,

James.

[FozzyWozzy1982]

if you right click on the folder, and go to security tab > advanced > ownership and select yourself (administrator) to take full ownership, apply this to sub files and folders *check box

failing that, boot the machine into a linux distro, mount the volume *external hard disk* and copy the files that way, then it cancels out all of the windows permissions.

Hope that helps,

James.

As James says - and use Robocopy to pickup from where it got to so your not having to re-copy all the data again

or VX Copy will work as well

Fozzy