Re: Access Denied (XP and Vista permissions issue)
"Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD88B6FE-485F-4131-9EE9-9EFD7B093A92@microsoft.com...
> 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?
I know about the Attrib command that works on XP and Vista.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=attrib+command&btnG=Google+Search