Re: Access an XP data drive (no OS installed) using Vista Ultimate

Double click My Computor, select D, rt click for Properties, select Security
Tab & check permissions

"John C (Go Packers!)" <jc3656@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok I checked and the drive is lettered (D:)
232.88 GB NTFS
Healthy (Active, Primary Partition).

Again, anytime I physically try to explore the drive it says "access
denied".

What do you suggest is best way to turn this SATAI drive into a slave data
drive once again??

Thank you for your help!
--
John C - Midwest, USA


"John C (Go Packers!)" wrote:

ok, I will check after work today and I will post. Thank you for
clarifying.
--
John C - Midwest, USA


"DL" wrote:

No, I was asking how 'Disk Management' showed this drive - thats not
the
same as Explorer/Computor

"John C (Go Packers!)" <jc3656@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, the drive is only a data/slave drive. I was able to access the
original
Sys drive and pull all data off of that one with no problem. My new
Vista
system shows this (SATA I) as (drive D: ACCESS DENIED) in "computer".
I
also
have a Raid 0 setup on this system (2 - 750gb fast SATAII drives
shown as
only drive C: 1.5tb).

Are you suggesting I go into system setup and change the properties
of
this
particular drive to read as a slave in my system?? I thought this is
done
automatically?? Let me know the proper way to do this as I don't
want to
get
any more frustrated by just trying it myself and failing. Thank you
all
for
your assistance with this!! John

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John C - Midwest, USA


"DL" wrote:

If the drive was a data drive only (ie not your sys drive, with data
in
the
user accounts) there is no 'take ownership' required.
Any data slave drive should be accessible on another pc when
installed as
a
slave.
How does Disk Management show this drive?

"John C (Go Packers!)" <jc3656@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John C - Midwest, USA


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

John C (Go Packers!) wrote:
I have already taken ownership over what I was able to via the
"Security" tab and it does show that I am the current owner re
the
admin portion of the drive, HOWEVER, physically...I am unable
to
view ANY directory or folders on this drive. Vista only shows
a
drive letter and when I click on drive...says "no access".

Windows Vista recognizes only that it is a drive...but will not
allow me physical access to it. This was only a slave (data
drive)
only. And some folders did have password protection, however,
like
I said...I have already changed ownership rights to the drive.
I
was the administrator of this "data" drive in my previous
system
and have all passwords, etc...it is just not allowing me to
physically get into the drive to navigate around.

So, what I need is clarification that there IS a way to
physically
access my SATA drive in my Vista system and if there are
software
settings I need to change in the security tabs first what are
they?

Will I need to put this drive back into a XP system? I would
have
to build or buy one...as all of my systems are currently Vista
systems. then what is the best, most efficient way to get
200gb of
data to my Vista system?

When you took ownership - did you tke ownership of the folder and
*all
sub-folders*?
Did you then go in and change the file/folder permissions to
include
your
current user *and* then propagate those changes to all
sub-folders/files?

As for the most efficient way - given your current predicament -
would
have
been/may be network file copy.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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My answer would be Yes and Yes...I did make sure to take ownership
of
all
folders and sub-folders. I also did propogate to current user.

I am still unable to access the drive physically in VISTA.








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