I've just got a new HDD and put Vista 64 HP on it and was intending on importing everything from my old HDD before wiping it and using it as a backup/music storage drive but I've ran into a problem. As the old drive was ran with XP it had a different user profile, therefore I need to change the security setting/owner of every single file before it'll let me move it. This'll take me hours as there's a lot there (emails, music, documents etc). Is there an easier way to do this that won't take hours?
Tansfering Old Files?
- Thread starter Cyanide
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Short of using the old drive to boot another PC and then shifting the data across a LAN the easiest way is to just reset the ownership. It shouldn't take that long to reset all the file ownerships, just leave it going and go for dinner/watch TV/go to bed.
If you are logged on to your Vista system with admin rights you shouldn't have any problems copy any files from any additional hard drive. So I would make sure you have administrator rights when you try and copy the files.
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you can change security recursivly from cmd
type "cacls /?" and read
NOTE: Look at the /E command, you'll prob want to /E /G not just /G
type "cacls /?" and read
NOTE: Look at the /E command, you'll prob want to /E /G not just /G