How do I transfer my music to another Hard Drive?

Question

My laptop recently died on me, so I took out the hard drive and put it in one of those enclosers. I was having no trouble at all transferring data to a new external hard drive, until I got to my music folder. Everytime I try to copy a file or folder it says
"Cannot Copy - [file so and so]: Access is Denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use."

Which, they aren't! Every other file on the drive I can access but my 15 gigs of music. What do I do?

Answer 1

is it in the documents and settings folder under your user name??? if so did you have a password? well if you did have a password download something called captain nemo to access the folder, or stella NTFS, if you did not have a pasword. Right click the drive> choose properties, choose tools do scandisk, tick the 2 boxes, might require a restart though .......other alternative,,,right click the folder choose properties , chose security, choose advanced,,,,choose owner select the administrator..(not administrators) and select the replace child object , then apply appy come out ,,,,then right click again properties select security and give the administrator full access apply and you done

Answer 2

Hi. You probably have DRM type music (Digital Rights Management). Try moving the files in Safe Mode.

Answer 3

Clone the drive.

Example of a program that would do this: Norton Ghost or Acronis Disk Director.

On your new drive, make a partition the same size as that of your old drive. Clone the old drive partition to the new.

Answer 4

If you have your ipod with all of the songs on it download itunes on a new computer and plug the ipod into it. It will prompt you and say that you can transfer your purchased songs onto the new computer. You can only do this 5 times so choose the computer carefully!

Answer 5

Try moving your "My Music" to the "Shared Documents" folder on your old HD


C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music

Answer 6

Right click on those files and see whether they are read protected. ~
If so, highlight them all and uncheck the read protection.

Answer 7

connect your previous harddisk with the recent device as secondary slave. examine the HDD instruction manual to locate the thank you to connnect it as secondary slave. via this u wil no longer want o pass your song record to everywhere and you will use your previous HDD alongside with new HDD.