HELP NEEDED ASAP

[u05rdh]

Hi

I have just put together a new system and installed windows Vista x64 on it.

Now I took my old hard drive out of the old system and tried to copy the my documents folders from 2 user accounts off it onto the new hard drive but it won’t let me copy files because there protected as the hard drive had 2 accounts on it and they both had passwords on them.

The old hard drive has windows XP on it. I tried to hook this hard drive into the new machine as a master but it just keeps resetting the system so I can’t get into it this way and the old system is gone!!

Anyone got any ideas? I'm meant to be selling the old hard drive today so what do I do?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Richard

 

[sublime]

You need to be the owner of every file and folder on the hard drive:

Plug the old hard drive in as a secondary/slave and then boot into Vista.

+In explorer/my computer, right click the drive and select "Properties"
+Security tab -> Advanced tab
+Owner tab -> Select the account -> Check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" -> Okay all these changes

+In explorer/my computer, right click the drive and select "Properties"
+Security tab -> Add your account and set "Full Access" -> Apply
+Security tab -> Advanced tab -> Check "Replace permission on all child objects with..." -> Apply

You should be able to copy whatever you need to now.