My question is how do I recover my email and contacts from Outlook and the
files in My Documents from a copy of the files on the C: drive of my old
system?

The copy of the C: drive is on a hard drive and when I try to remove the
read only attribute from the My Document folder, I get the message ‘access
denied’. If I try to open a file I get message ‘User does not have access
privileges’.

I think this may have happened because I copied the files from the C: drive
instead of copying the partition.

Thank you,
Ted Ryder

It's due to the owner privileges of the file system in the operating
system. Take ownership of the folders. How? See "Take Ownership of Files
or folders" in Windows Help.

pequot10 wrote:

> My question is how do I recover my email and contacts from Outlook and the
> files in My Documents from a copy of the files on the C: drive of my old
> system?
>
> The copy of the C: drive is on a hard drive and when I try to remove the
> read only attribute from the My Document folder, I get the message ‘access
> denied’. If I try to open a file I get message ‘User does not have access
> privileges’.
>
> I think this may have happened because I copied the files from the C: drive
> instead of copying the partition.
>
> Thank you,
> Ted Ryder
>