Actually, I managed to find the answer on my own.
'How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
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Ed
"Ed White" wrote:
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> I've been running XP Professional from a partition on my hard drive for a
> while, and decided to see if my software will run on Vista now that SP1 is
> out. So I installed Vista on the second HD partition, and when running Vista
> couldn't access the My Documents folder on the XP partition. I then found
> that under Vista, you can Take Ownership of a folder (if you have
> administrative permissions), so I did that for the My Docs folder in the XP
> partition, and I now have access from Vista to my XP partition docs. Problem
> is, when I boot under the XP partition, and I'm locked out of all of my files
> in My Documents ("Access Denied"). Under Vista, I've tried allowing Sharing
> of the folder on the Network and all kinds of things, but everytime I boot
> under XP I cannot access My Documents folder. Since I was only testing
> Vista, I really need to access my files from XP. How do I do this??
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> Ed