Vista - VISTA Harddrive Ownership Problem...

After 3 days of formatting and formatting and formatting my hdd, and now I have finally got my VISTA backup. Anyway, I am desperate for help on taking ownership of a partition.

Please allow me to explain my situation; I searched and found something similar but I'm looking for a definite solution before I attempt to do anymore fixing. DOn't want to get back into the formatting nightmare.


I used VISTA32bit on drive C: in HDD1 with 2 partitions. HDD2 has 2 more partitions and one of them (E: ) is only accessable to the VISTA admin in C:. HDD2 also has a XP OS in the other partition. XP cannot access partition E:.

The life of my HDD1 is coming to an end as it crashes my computer all the time and it detects a lot of hardware damage within the disk.

So I got an old HDD (HDD3) and installed a VISTA32bit on it with a few trys (it also said something is wrong with this HDD3 ) But I finally formatted it the slow way instead of using the quick format and everything looks fine up to now. The problem is, I cannot access drive E: anymore since its ownership and permission were given to C:'s admin.

What do I have to do to get permission back on the entire drive (not just folders and files within) for VISTA in HDD3?

I tried this, Change the permissions and take ownership of your files and folders | Windows Vista for Beginners , exactly as it said and it didn't help. The drive still shows Access Denied (E: ) at my computer. I cannot even view the folders within the drive.

Hopefully someone tried this and worked it out and willing to share with me the solution. I really need to get access to those files pretty soon.

Thanks

Hi steam03, have you had a look through this sites tutorial?

Take Ownership of file

Thank you VERY MUCH!!! It worked!

The life of my HDD1 is coming to an end as it crashes my computer all the time and it detects a lot of hardware damage within the disk.

So I got an old HDD (HDD3) and installed a VISTA32bit on it with a few trys (it also said something is wrong with this HDD3 ) But I finally formatted it the slow way instead of using the quick format and everything looks fine up to now. The problem is, I cannot access drive E: anymore since its ownership and permission were given to C:'s admin.