Permissions...

[twistedfaith]

My friend's computer died the other day (motherboard died thanks to a lot of dust!) and she ended up buying a new computer. The problem is that she wants all her files transferred from her old hard drive to her new one - but she had a password on her account, which means the files are locked out.

I know how to take ownership of the files using the admin account etc etc, but the way I do it seems to take forever! Is there a definitive way to remove all of the permissions so I can copy the files across and she can access them? I just wanna know if the method I use is the best one (this is all being done on an XP machine)

Thanks in advance!

 

[yoda]

well, their is definitive, but still takes ages...

Right click on her hard drive in my computer...
Left click on properties
click on security tab
click advanced
click on owner tab
click your user
click on replace owner on subcontainers
Click apply

Progress box comes up....

Click OK

Click on permissions tab
Click on Replace permission entries on all child objercts....
Click Apply

DONE!

You now have perverted the drive to your needs.... have fun...

 

[twistedfaith]

Thanks! nice to see I wasn't completley wrong!