settings preservation

  1. Windows XP Lost my XP after moving partition to new drive - how do I restore?

    I upgraded my SATA drive from 500 to 1 Tb & used Acronis Disk Director to move all 8 partitions across to it. XP is still showing as the 1st partition, healthy, active etc, yet when I try to boot directly from it the PC just hangs & goes nowhere as if it was a data only drive. Is there an...
    • TKR99
    • Thread
    • acronis boot issues data loss disk director os recovery partitioning sata drive settings preservation upgrade process windows xp
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  2. Windows 7 Access denied C:\Documents & Settings

    Hi all, I did a search on this and I cannot find that the problem has been resolved, not in a way that works for me anyway. Issue: when I try to open C:\Documents & Settings I get "acess denied". This despite that my being logged in as admin. I mean, I installed Windows 7 RC1 on the machine...
    • Commander_Cool
    • Thread
    • access denied admin rights data transfer documents folder error messages file access installation help program installation registry tweaks settings preservation software migration system issues tech support troubleshooting user permissions windows 7 windows settings windows upgrade
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support