administration permission

[phoenix1971]

i want to copy a large amount of data to another drive,but no matter what i do i keep getting "You'll need to provide administration permission to copy this file" i've checked permissions and everything looks fine,but still wont move, please help me
thanks in advance

[DaveLembke]

If you open up command prompt and runas administrator can you copy it then without any problems?

This will take an understanding of using COPY, XCOPY, or ROBOCOPY. My personal favorite is XCOPY because it works between my newer and older computers and it is able to copy large amounts of data and maintain the folder structure from its source to its destination.

I use this instruction on a regular basis with my external drives:

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XCOPY C:\Data\*.* E:\Data\*.* /h/s/d/y
This copies files and folders including hidden files and folders from my Data directory on my computer to same Data directory on the external. You will need to edit this for whichever path your source and destination is.