Access Denied to Vista drive

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Geoff

Dual-boot system (Vista Home and XP Pro on two hard drives). Vista can
read/write all files on XP drive, but XP gets "Access is Denied" when trying
to open Documents and Settings on Vista drive.
support.microsoft.com/kb/810881 did not help because in XP, there is no
Security tab visible on the Vista folder Properties page. How can I gain
access to these files?

Thanks,

Geoff
 
Geoff said:
Dual-boot system (Vista Home and XP Pro on two hard drives). Vista can
read/write all files on XP drive, but XP gets "Access is Denied" when
trying
to open Documents and Settings on Vista drive.
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"Documents and Settings" on Vista is NOT a folder, it's a junction point.
That's why you can't open it.
On Vista the folder is in C:\Users\{account name}\Documents.

Windows Vista Junction Points:

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
 
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