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Setting Drive Permissions for Restore

Imagine you are happily working on your XP machine and dutifully performing Cucku backups to an external hard drive. Then the worst happens and your main XP hard drive fails.

Safe in the knowledge that your precious data is stored on an external hard drive, you purchase a new Vista laptop and begin the restore process.

You begin by installing Cucku Backup on the new machine.

Then run the setup wizard and use the SAME Cucku account that you originally used to backup the files. This is important otherwise you won't be able to restore the data. [If you have been managing your own keys you will need to import your saved key].


After following the on screen instructions you find that the Backup Index on the external hard drive cannot be opened.
In Cucku Settings/Backup and clicking BackupLocations shows that the drive in not accessible.

The reason for this may be as follows:

When you created the backup under your Windows XP account e.g. YouOnXP, the file system will have set permissions for the backup folder to only allow YouOnXP access to the folder. This is a security feature to stop other users on the same machine accessing or deleting your backup.

However, when you create your new account on Windows Vista e.g. YouOnVista you will not immediately have permission to access the backup folder of the external hard drive.

To remedy this...



  1. Log into the new machine with an administrator account.

  2. In Explorer, right click the external hard drive and select "Properties".

  3. Select the "Security" tab.

  4. Click the "Edit" button under the "Group or User names" list.

  5. When Windows asks "Windows needs your permission..." select "Continue".

  6. Click the "Add" Button to add a new user.

  7. Type "Everyone" (without the quotes) into the box provided and click "Check Names".

  8. Click OK.

  9. Now select "Everyone" in the list of "Group or User names".

  10. Then click the "Full Control" check box under the "Allow" column and click OK.

  11. This may take a while to complete.



You should now be able to restore from the backup.

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posted by Mark on Monday, June 01, 2009

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