Re: I am unable to switch ownership of files in a prior C: Hard drive

Being the owner of a file does not automatically imply that you can read that file. As well as changing the ownership you may need to change the permissions. Make sure that you set the first permission line to yourself and all permissions and allow that to propagate down the structure. (Vista Home Premium 32 SP1, but should be same with 64 bit)

Also it would help if you stated a path/file you are having problems with and quote the error response you are receiving.
Michael


"David Glienna" <help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#8wLyULmJHA.1216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Its the same as it was with XP. Home didn't have the SECURITY tab in Explorer properties. You needed PRO to take ownership of files. Vista Home has the same limitation.

- David

"Barabin25" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1c297391d437527032bfa9fd62f9aaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I am trying to open files on my old hard drive using my new Vista Home
Premium x64. I can see the icons but do not have permission to open
them.

I am using a USB2.0 to IDE adaptor. I removed the pin from the
master/slave 8 pin array.

I have clicked on the hard drive I: properties, security, advanced,
owner and edit and changed the owner to that of my VISTA administrator
account by selecting as a new owner my new admin account, checkmark in
"replace owner on all subcontainers and objects" and (apply) - the
computer security opens a window and spends about 5 minutes shifting
ownership, file by file, then I click ok ok ok.

When I look at the drive in computer, my new computer (C:\) has an
admin account WIG2, while the old hard drive was named say DOG1, and the
new owner of the I: folder is now WIG2 (PC\DOG2). However, I cannot open
word files from that drive or copy them to my new computer.

What am I doing wrong?
Should I change pin conformation on the old hard drive?
Have I really changed ownership to the account on my new C drive or
just renamed the account on the I: drive (the former C:\ drive)?
Do I have to shut off the firewall on the former C:\ drive?
I don't have this problem with the old slave drive that I had on the
computer, only with the old C: drive.

Thanks for the help.


--
Barabin25

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