Accessing files from a secondary drive with XP on in same system W7

dtokez

dtokez

dtokez

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basically, I have installed windows 7 on a new hdd but left the old drive with windows xp on in there so I can easily bring my stuff over. The new drive is now the C: drive and the old is the D: drive

I can access high level folders from the D: drive but if I try to access something like my documents, I get a pop up saying I dont have permission to access this folder. When I press continue I get another one saysing I have been denied permission to access, and to use the security tab. In the security tab I can't see anything that I can change to allow me to access my folders. There was no user password set for windows xp, very confusing :confused:
 
This is still giving me grief lol - if I give myself ownership of a folder following the steps from lurkio (cheers) it does work but then I have to do it for all sub folders, and when I get down the the files that I need I have to somehow do it to them aswel but can't seem to work out how.

Is there a method to take ownership of the entire disk?
 
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