So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to my new
Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I cannot
access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video, text
and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such and
while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access and
ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the file.
It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator and
reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I do
that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in the
process?