Access denied message on saved copy of Office XP files

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pequot10

My question is how do I recover my email and contacts from Outlook and the
files in My Documents from a copy of the files on the C: drive of my old
system?

The copy of the C: drive is on a hard drive and when I try to remove the
read only attribute from the My Document folder, I get the message ‘access
denied’. If I try to open a file I get message ‘User does not have access
privileges’.

I think this may have happened because I copied the files from the C: drive
instead of copying the partition.

Thank you,
Ted Ryder
 
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Bob I

It's due to the owner privileges of the file system in the operating
system. Take ownership of the folders. How? See "Take Ownership of Files
or folders" in Windows Help.
 
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