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Old 05-04-2008   #5 (permalink)
Ramesh, MS-MVP


 
 

Re: Changing File Ownership

Hi Wyndell,

Take ownership of the files and folders in the old drive that you want to access and give yourself full control. You can use the in-built takeown.exe command to take ownership. See:

How to Take Ownership of a file or folder in Windows Vista?
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/ho...windows-vista/

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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"romeboy" <romeboy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:BE05A44E-7AE7-4815-B1EE-FD4097471BFB@xxxxxx
Using Vista Home Premium. Have a drive on the USB bus that came out of my
old XP computer. Trying to access some text and Excell files on the drive.
They come back with "Access Denied".

I have read and tried all the suggestions I have found on the subject of
changing file ownership. Nothing works. Still can not access these files.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Wyndell



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