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:
 
right click on the folder -> properties

go to security tab , click -> Advanced -> go to Owner tab

set yourself as the owner click apply then close all the tabs

re-open the folder now , you should have access
 
I've always found the ownership control panel/tap/property tabs a very user unfriendy interface. It always gave me trouble with sub folders and one folder inheriting the parent folders rights etc.

You can download little reg updates that will give you right click option of take ownership. I used them until I got all my files sorted.


Try on a couple of folders before doing the whole drive.

Oh and I hope you have a backup system in place before you start messing around with moving drives around and changing permissions. Key files to DVD and then everything to a backup HD. (or cloud - I'm not a fan of the cloud myself).

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff404240.aspx
 
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?
 
When you take ownership tick the box that says Replace owner on subcontainers and objects
 
Ahem...

OspreyO said:
I've always found the ownership control panel/tap/property tabs a very user unfriendy interface. It always gave me trouble with sub folders and one folder inheriting the parent folders rights etc. ....
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It doesn't give up permissions easily. I'm surprised more people don't have problems with it. Its a very unfriendly process. I think I had to keep applying the ownership and drilling down. Some its to do with read/write access aswell.
 
OspreyO said:
I've always found the ownership control panel/tap/property tabs a very user unfriendy interface.
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They're not designed to be user friendly (although it's fine for sysadmins), it's to scare off users from messing with things that can quite easily cause havoc if changed!
 
Liquidfox said:
They're not designed to be user friendly (although it's fine for sysadmins), it's to scare off users from messing with things that can quite easily cause havoc if changed!
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I would seriously doubt its designed to be user unfriendly. Its a typical interface by someone (usually a programmer) who has put no thought into it at all. You often have to reapply the properties a number of times. There's no information about far down the tree its changed properties. The problem is it doesn't do what it says on the tin. It often quits without finishing and no information about. No one wants that kind of interface.

dtokez said:
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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As I said I found the reg edit worked better. But if you want to use the MS control panel its probably the order in which you did it. Someone suggested this order...


Go to the top level of the folder structure and open the Properties for it. From the Security tab, select the Advanced button. From the default Permissions tab, add yourself to the list and check off the option Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object, OK it. Reopen the Advanced Security Settings, go to the Owner tab, edit, add yourself again and check off Replace owner on sub container and objects.
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1723286/bypass-access-denied-security-hard-drive.html
 
OspreyO said:
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It doesn't give up permissions easily. I'm surprised more people don't have problems with it. Its a very unfriendly process. I think I had to keep applying the ownership and drilling down. Some its to do with read/write access aswell.
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I must be just lucky then, never had an issue with it and have done it many times
 
OspreyO said:
Isn't the point that you shouldn't need to do it "many times".

Why should we have to do it at all?
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Actually, this. I've been running and using comps since the early 1980's, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Not only with MS systems but UNIX as well. It can even happen with files backed up years and years ago from Win98 that you try to open in Win7 or Win8. The process of drilling down through permissions is simply, stupid. It isn't any sort of security anyway, and never was. All it has ever done is P**s the real owner off for having the audacity of wanting to read there own files.
 
If the data was in the users document store, or library or an encrypted container, then thats one thing. But if its on an external disk and outside of that, that's different. I just find how windows applies this, and edits it very sloppy.
 
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