Just to clarify a bit, I have granted full authority to these folders and even the root, but it's like it doesn't matter, it's still hiding stuff.
Alright, to make a long story short, my old box had hardware failures and so I decided to get a new machine. The new machine has Vista Home Premium. The old machine ran XP Pro SP2.
After buying an external IDE to USB data transfer device (awesome!) and copying data from all of my old drives, I ran into a problem when I got into the old C: drive.
I can't access all of the files & folders I need to get to, to transfer the data.
Is there a way to tell it to grant me complete, 100%, no limit access to the files on the XP drive, so I can get everything I want transferred over?
I keep right clicking>properties>unchecking read only and hidden on the folders and Vista will do it's thing for about ten minutes and I'm thinking everything should show now, BUT NO!!!
I searched for TXT files I know were on the drive, but they don't show up in the search results, along with many others. Also, is it possible to import the cookies to the new machine? I imported the favorites (bookmark) without any problems, but I can't even get to the temporary internet cache folder. It simply doesn't appear.
Is there a way that I can get it to work or am I screwed? I can't just boot up the ole XP drive on the new sys, as the hardware is different and xp would have a fit.

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