Re: Access Denied (XP and Vista permissions issue)
"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
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> "Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> 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?
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> 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
The attrib command will not help the OP to modify the access control list
(ACL) for the files and folders. It can only modify or display the
attributes of files or folders (hidden, readonly etc.). The command-line
tool to view or modify ACLs is named CACLS.
-Pete