Engine Error: (5) - Access is denied

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I was transferring files from a Windows XP computer to a Windows 2000 pro
computer via an external hard drive. When i do this, i get this error:

Unknown archive format
Engine Error: (5) - Access is denied

But when i burn a CD of the same exact files, it works.
Why is it having this error?
Never seen this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciate to not have this problem in
transferring files.
Thanks.
KT
 
kt said:
I was transferring files from a Windows XP computer to a Windows 2000 pro
computer via an external hard drive. When i do this, i get this error:

Unknown archive format
Engine Error: (5) - Access is denied

But when i burn a CD of the same exact files, it works.
Why is it having this error?
Never seen this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciate to not have this problem in
transferring files.
Thanks.
KT
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I recommend you supply more details?
- What type of external drive? USB? Firewire? Other?
- How are you transferring the files? With Explorer? Xcopy? Other?
- What file system does the external drive use? FAT32? NTFS?
- If it's NTFS, what are the permissions on that drive?
- Does the problem occur with single files? Some files? All files?
Large files? Small files?
 
I recommend you supply more details?

Before i start details, i have a laptop that runs winXP, and i transfer
files to and from the hard drive from that computer, and it works fine. I
have a different winXP computer and this is the computer that gives the error.
- What type of external drive? USB? Firewire? Other?
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The external drive is a USB/Firewire 120GB Seagate drive. I use just USB
becuase there is no firewire card on the XP computer.
- How are you transferring the files? With Explorer? Xcopy? Other?
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With explorer
- What file system does the external drive use? FAT32? NTFS?
NTFS

- If it's NTFS, what are the permissions on that drive?
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don't know :/
- Does the problem occur with single files? Some files? All files?
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Its with all files from that drive
Large files? Small files?
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both
 
The following may bear on your problem:

W2k uses NTFS 3.0. XP uses NTFS 3.1, which is backward compatible with
the 3.0 version. However, I'm not sure W2k can cope with a directly
attached drive formatted with the 3.1 version.

When files are written to a CD, I believe they are in a unique CD format
such that any [MS?] OS can read them and place them on a drive in that
drive's format. Source and destination formats don't matter.
I was transferring files from a Windows XP computer to a Windows 2000 pro
computer via an external hard drive. When i do this, i get this error:

Unknown archive format
Engine Error: (5) - Access is denied

But when i burn a CD of the same exact files, it works.
Why is it having this error?
Never seen this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciate to not have this problem in
transferring files.
Thanks.
KT


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kt said:
Before i start details, i have a laptop that runs winXP, and i transfer
files to and from the hard drive from that computer, and it works fine. I
have a different winXP computer and this is the computer that gives the error.

The external drive is a USB/Firewire 120GB Seagate drive. I use just USB
becuase there is no firewire card on the XP computer.


With explorer


don't know :/


Its with all files from that drive

both
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I suppose you read Dan Seur's note. What he says is a possible
cause for your problem. I would now do this:

- Click Start / Run
- Type cmd {OK}
- Type this command:
copy %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe X:\ {OK}
(replace "X" with the correct USB drive letter)
What message do you see on the screen?

If this throws up an error message too then I would pay
attention to Dan's suspicion and repartition the external drive.
You will, of course, lose all data on it.
 
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