File Access

[Bill]

Thank you for your suggestion. I have tried what you
suggest. However, after right clicking on the folder and
taking the advanced button from the General Screen, I am
not given an owner tab of the obtion to choose a new
owner. The only options that come up are Archive and
Index Attributes and Compress and Encrypt Attributes.
What am I missing?


>-----Original Message-----
>Have you tried taking control of the folder and editing
>the permissions? To do this, navigate to the folder,
>right click on it and choose properties. Click the
>security tab and then the advanced button. Choose the
>owner tab and choose yourself in the box. Check
>the "Replace" box and hit ok. This may take several
>minutes but after that see if you can change the
>permissions on the folder.
>
>XP was made so that if someone stole a hard drive and
>slaved it they could not access protected data, even if
>the computer name, profile name and password are the
same.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>After a power failure XP will not reboot using any of
>the
>>reboot options including Safe Mode. I have a OEM
>restore
>>CD so Recovery Console is not available.
>>
>>My solution was to purchase a new hard drive and
restore
>>my OEM XP onto the new drive making the old drive the
>>slave drive. This worked fine, except that when I try
>to
>>go into the old (slave drive) adminsistrator directory
>to
>>recover files, access is denied.
>>
>>I have set up the new version with the same
administator
>>name and password as the old but nothing that I try
will
>>allow access to the the old directory. Everything that
>I
>>read says that as administrator, I should have complete
>>access to all files, which I do, with the exception of
>>the files that I had under the administrator name in
the
>>Documents and Settings directory.
>>
>>Any ideas on how to get access?
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

[Matt DuBois [MSFT]]

Sounds like you have clicked the Advanced button on the "General" tab of the
properties. If you look at the properties window when you first open it,
you will see some labels near the top (General, Sharing, Security, and
Customize). Click on the Security label, and then use the Advanced button
you see there. The text next to it will say "For special permissions of for
advanced settings, click Advanced." The "Owner" tab Ed Panzeter referred to
will be up near the top of the Advanced window, like the Security label was
on the initial properties window, so you can just follow his instructions
from there.


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"Bill" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you for your suggestion. I have tried what you
> suggest. However, after right clicking on the folder and
> taking the advanced button from the General Screen, I am
> not given an owner tab of the obtion to choose a new
> owner. The only options that come up are Archive and
> Index Attributes and Compress and Encrypt Attributes.
> What am I missing?
>
>