profile inaccessible

why is it sometimes when i attach a clients hard drive to another machine is the users profile inaccessible ??? + sign does not even show next to the profile. when i try to access it just says not accessible but when i put back in clients machine then all is okay.

this happens a lot when im trying to transfer data from the old machine to one of my client backup machines. sometimes it doesnt and I can get to all of the profiles but a lot of times at least one profile is not accessible when attached as a slave drive. makes it impossible to get at the data if the original machine is not responsive.

any thoughts would be appreciated. right now working on a machine that must have thousand of bugs on it so the machine is unbelievably slow even in safe mode nothing responds. when i attach the drive as a slave on another machine i am unable to get at clients profile for data move.

 

This is usually because your system doesn't have the proper SID for the clients information. Generally it's easiest to copy these folders to a FAT32 device to strip the permissions. You can also change the security settings on the folders to take ownership and then give yourself permission to work on them.

 

usasma

so basically its a corrupt profile if the sid is bad. ive done the security settings change and that still didnt work. havent done the fat32 cuz honestly have pretty much trashed all my extra machines that had fat32.

thanks.