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Cannot copy image to second USB drive

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I used TrueImage 2010 (build 6053) to backup Computer #1 to a USB hard drive. This was done from within Windows 7 Professional, not from the TI Boot Disk. I took the USB drive home and connected it to Computer #2 running XP and tried to copy the image from the first USB drive to another USB hard drive, but received an error message "access is denied". I fixed the problem by unchecking "Use Simple File Sharing" on the XP computer, taking ownership of the file and granting full rights to the file. Then the copy command worked fine.

My question is ... why was this be necessary? Other files (e.g., a Word document) created within Win7 onto this USB drive don't have a permissions issue when copying them to an XP computer. Does TI2010 create its images with restricted permissions? I also repeated the process but created the image using the LinuxISO CD and did not have this permissions issue.

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Is there a possibility that the target disk was a Fat32 file system and could not accept a large single file.

Not a FAT32 issue because he could do the job if he fixed the permissions and too big a file for FAT32 ususally gives a "Device Full" type message.

My guess is that TI needs to run as an administrator task rather than normal user and this causes a permission problem - permissions always seem to be somewhat confusing to me. Suggest you Google Windows 7 permissions or similiar string which may give some insight unless somebody gives a definitive answer here.