Vista - Can't move files with UAC OFF!

I'm beside myself. I'm trying to reorganize files, folders, and new drive and cannot find any way to move files from one drive to the new one. I've tried everything and a couple of new little programs that are supposed to give me "ownership". Nothing will work for me. Right now I'm trying to move my Audible Books from old to new drive and cannot. I can't even delete them! I've turned UAC off and no change. Vista has me stumped.

Help please! ....and thanks.

Moving files to a new drive? What about if you reboot in safe mode...

Thanks fo the comment....... but it doesn't help. I cannot move these files without "permission" and I've tried that one by one and it seems sometimes to work but it's so laborious it's a drag for quite few files. I've downloaded the little programs to take "ownership" and they say they've worked but nothing really works.

The only think I can think of is to remove the drive and load it on another machine and transfer the files that way. It seems rediculous to me but I'm hoping there is something I've done wrong or overlooked that will provide an answer.

Enable the Administrator Account

1. Open the command prompt with Administrative privileges by opening the Start Menu, and typing cmd in the search box, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter or click the Start orb, All Programs, Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
2. Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter after: net user administrator /active:yes
3. Restart your computer and logon as Administrator.

Thanks so much for your continued help!

I executed that command successfully but it didn't seem to make a difference. I find that using that little freebie program "take ownership" will work one-by-one on the file to copy a file to the new drive but then I have to run "take ownership" again to delete the file in the old drive. For a bunch of files this is really time consuming (or wasting).

I'm right clicking on the file to be moved and using the "move here" choice but it doesn't work. It only copies the file and then the old one must be deleted.

I've turned off the UAC, run the "net user......" command you gave me.

I'm the only one using this machine and I'm shown as "Paul, Administrator" and there are no other choices for log on.

I can't help but wonder if there is some other setting that's mis-set or wrong. I can't believe MS would build this limitation into Vista??

I'm still frustrated but thanks sincerely for your help and advice.

I may be guilty of wasting your time and my breath. The files I've been trying to move are Audible Books that are stored in my download folder. There's a bunch of them as I said. I've just discovered that I can move all the other files with no problem except for these. I suspect it has to do with some anti-copying restriction on the book files.

I'll ask Audible if there is a way around the problem.

In the meantime my apologies for the probable false alarm and thanks for your help.

No problem. Good luck!

We will be here if you need us. let us know if you resolve it

ken

Ahh now I understand what my Dad was telling me.He was saying Windows simply won't let you touch certain things at all no matter what zzz

Blue

there is always a way. question is if its worth all the trouble.

Ken