
I've just encountered a bit of an unusual problem. There was a power outage at my mother's house, and a surge which has killed the power supply, motherboard, AND cpu of her XP machine which I built in 2000. I figured it lasted long enough and she'd been wanting a laptop for a while, so I helped her buy a new machine (Vista of course) which she now knows how to connect to her big monitor, printer, mouse, and keyboard. The one issue is she had several pictures etc saved on her old machine. I picked up one of those dynex USB hard drive enclosures, popped the old HD in, hooked it up, no problems. I browse to her folder, suddenly I'm being told I don't have permission to view the folder, and to click continue to get permission. I do, and the predictable UAC confirmation screen comes up and I click continue.. then it hangs. I've tried playing with the security settings (right clicking, menus, etc) and have all the rights granted for her account, yet it keeps telling me I don't have permission to open those folders. Is there something I'm missing, or am I gonna have to take the hard drive to a friend's XP machine to save all these holiday/baby pictures?