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Name: slammook
Date: November 7, 2002 at 04:29:49 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: PIII
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I have an IBM Thinkpad R31 notebook here, sometimes connected with an Iomega USB hard disk to do backups for some Word doc's, Powerpoints, etc. When I try to select all of these files from "My Documents" in local HD and copy to that USB hard disk, it prompts out an error saying "Can't copy NTUSER.DAT: Access denied. Make sure it is not in use or write-protected". Then the copy process stops. What's wrong with it?



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Name: jol
Date: November 7, 2002 at 06:43:42 Pacific
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Could it be when you select "all of these files" you must be including the NTUSER.DAT file too, which then prevents copying???


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Name: slammook
Date: November 7, 2002 at 20:06:20 Pacific
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I made the system files visible in folder options, try copying 1 single folder instead of all files, but the problem still exist.


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