Zarel

No, that's not the problem; the files are readable all right, they're just
read-only. You can't rename them, delete them, overwrite them, etc. Even when
I'm booted into Windows XP, I can't write into the system directory of my
Vista partition.

"RichC" wrote:

> Have you tried going to control panel-folder options-view and selecting "view
> hidden files". I was able to copy all of my windows.old files from Beta 2
> into a new profile in RC1 by doing this.
>
> "lionel" wrote:
>
> > When I try to access my documents in windows.old (to copy to Vista my
> > documents) I get the message:
> > "You have been denied premission to access this folder"
> > so I click the security tab and get
> > "The requested information is either unavaiable or cannot be displayed"
> > I am using the administrator account!