How to modify permissions in Vista

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mzielstorff

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I cloned my old hard drive onto a new one using Norton Ghost. There was a problem with loading onto the new drive, which had been given the letter D: while the old OS was still on C:. The two OSs got co-mingled; when loading into the OS on the D: drive Windows was still using system files from the C: drive. I fixed it by generalizing the boot loader so that it would load onto the new drive without specifically calling it D:, and when I did this it renamed itself C:. Thought the problem was solved, but then my copy and paste functions stopped working. I found that I could copy and paste text just not files and folders, and in certain instances I could not even create a new folder or otherwise modify existing contents of a folder. I thought that this was a permissions problem. My user account, though an administrator account, did not have full permissions control. I manually changed this, set the permissions to full, and it partially worked: I can create a new folder. But there's still something wrong: I can not drag and drop, or even select a file, copy it, and then paste it to another location via it's icon (meaning right clicking on and icon for a folder and selecting "paste"). When I do this I get the Windows error "ding." BUT, if I first open the target folder and within the folder right click and select paste it DOES work. WTF? This occurs everywhere, even on the desktop. Does anyone have any ideas into what is going on? I should mention that if I log into the default Administrator account none of these problems occur.
 
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mzielstorff said:
I cloned my old hard drive onto a new one using Norton Ghost. There was a problem with loading onto the new drive, which had been given the letter D: while the old OS was still on C:. The two OSs got co-mingled; when loading into the OS on the D: drive Windows was still using system files from the C: drive. I fixed it by generalizing the boot loader so that it would load onto the new drive without specifically calling it D:, and when I did this it renamed itself C:. Thought the problem was solved, but then my copy and paste functions stopped working. I found that I could copy and paste text just not files and folders, and in certain instances I could not even create a new folder or otherwise modify existing contents of a folder. I thought that this was a permissions problem. My user account, though an administrator account, did not have full permissions control. I manually changed this, set the permissions to full, and it partially worked: I can create a new folder. But there's still something wrong: I can not drag and drop, or even select a file, copy it, and then paste it to another location via it's icon (meaning right clicking on and icon for a folder and selecting "paste"). When I do this I get the Windows error "ding." BUT, if I first open the target folder and within the folder right click and select paste it DOES work. WTF? This occurs everywhere, even on the desktop. Does anyone have any ideas into what is going on? I should mention that if I log into the default Administrator account none of these problems occur.
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Check Disk Management and see if the new OS is operating independently. Right click Computer- Manage- Disk Management. If not operating independently you will have to hide the other OS from the boot OS and boot this way once.
 

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I kind of took the easy way out. Since the default administrator account was working without any problems I decided to create a new user account and see if that worked without problems, which it did. So I just migrated all of my user data from the old profile to the new one.
 

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