Re: Security won't let me see my files

From: Victor (ohvictor@hotmail)
Date: 11/12/02


From: "Victor" <ohvictor@hotmail>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:20:01 +0800


TAKE OWNERSHIP OF FILES & FOLDERRight click on the folder, go to the
security tab, click advanced, on the Ownership tab choose to take ownership
of the folder.Read Knowledge Base Article:HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File
or Folder in Windows XP (Q308421)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421

"David" <luckychap@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:d4e601c28a2b$132f77e0$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> I recently installed a 40 gb drive. Eventually I want to
> use the current 20gb drive in a server, but before that I
> have to move files from it. I decided to mount the 20gb
> drive as a slave to the new drive, and reinstall XP,
> Office and several applications on the new drive. All
> went well - The new drive became C:, the old drive became
> D:. I can use all files on the 20gb drive (D:) except
> those under my personal directory - D:\Documents and
> settings\david. where I get an ".... access is denied"
> message. Logging on as administrator does not make any
> difference.
>
> I theorise that the security protecting the directory
> does not recognise the PID or similar of the new
> supervisor. I realy need to know what to do about it. If
> I reverse the drive mountings, (make the original the
> master), then copy required files to the (new) D: drive,
> am I going to have the same problems?
>
> I sure would appreciate some advice on this
>
> David

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