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Re: How to Access Folder When Transferring Drive

Subject: Re: How to Access Folder When Transferring Drive
From: Cicero
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:14:34 GMT
Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt

On Tue, 06 May 2008 13:35:08 -0500, Davy wrote:

> My Win2000 PC died so I have built a replacement XP 
> machine.  I swapped the drive with the data to the new 
> machine.
> One of the folders had security settings to prevent anyone 
> but me opening it.
> Now I can't open the folder even if I am logged in with 
> exactly the same user name and password as on my old 
> machine, even if I switch to an account with administrator 
> rights.
> I get the error "An error occurred while reconnecting to E 
> to \\oldcomputername\data on oldcomputername.  Microsoft 
> Windows Network: The local device name is already in use. 
> This connection has not been restored"
> 
> can anyone advise?
> 
> Davy

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I don't use Windows anymore but I remember something to the effect that
you can beat encryption by sending the encrypted item(s) as an E-mail
attachment. An E-mail to yourself would be worth a try with nothing to
lose if it doesn't work.

Cic.
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