Changing permissions on a 'local disk' run in a USB caddy?

[MrSix]

My grandmothers laptop decided to give up on her the other day and so she's since replaced it with a new machine. I told her I'd recover her files from the hard drive (it was mobo failure so the HDD was fine) using a USB caddy I had.

I transferred the hard drive to the caddy today and have it plugged in to my machine, however when I try to access her documents it says I don't have permission. Is there any way I can access these files? How do I change the permissions to allow me to read, write and copy the files?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[AbsenceJam]

Security tab of properties page and go from there.

 

[bledd]

google

take ownership of a folder

use the microsoft link

 

[benjo plz.]

run cmd from the drive's root,
icacls <DriveLetter>: /Grant <UserName>:F

then

takeown /a /f <DriveLetter.:\

eg

icacls F: /Grant Administrator:F
takeown /a /f F:\*

 

[ns400r]

run cmd from the drive's root,
icacls <DriveLetter>: /Grant <UserName>:F

then

takeown /a /f <DriveLetter.:\

eg

icacls F: /Grant Administrator:F
takeown /a /f F:\*

That's it, keep it simple!

 

[mmorpheus1]

That's it, keep it simple!

hey if it works

 

[Greenlizard0]

run cmd from the drive's root,
icacls <DriveLetter>: /Grant <UserName>:F

then

takeown /a /f <DriveLetter.:\

eg

icacls F: /Grant Administrator:F
takeown /a /f F:\*

Good lad.

 

[edscdk]

I think icacls is a vista only command look at the below if you have xp...


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825751 or

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/...24-0616-473c-b103-c35bc2820bda&displaylang=en

You will probably have to first take ownership of the files then give your user account permissions to access the files..

 

[benjo plz.]

Yeah, I was assuming he uses vista, otherwise cacls should work.