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| Guest | Can't access a second hard drive! I installed my old hard drive as a second hard drive in windows Vista. I put my old programs on it so I could add my pictures etc to the new hard drive & then format the old hard drive to use. Big problem, it doesn't matter what I do to change permissions. I am the administrator & the only user on this computer. I need to use my second hard drive to get my old stuff off of it. Windows Vista says I don't have permission to do so even as administrator! Why do I have to have permission to use my old hard drive? Can I turn all this off so I can access this hard drive. Even when I tried to do it indiviually this stupid operating system won't let me. I am getting desperate because I have a business to run & can't get to my files! Please help. Thanks, Debbie |
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| Guest | Re: Can't access a second hard drive! Hello, Try this: This will require some familiarity with the command prompt. - Click start - Type: cmd - Right-click it when it appears under programs, and click Run As Administrator - cd to the drive that contains the files you need access to (e.g., cd f ![]() - cd to the folder that you need access to (e.g., cd f:\documents) - Type: takeown /F . /A /R /D Y - Type: icacls . /grant USER F) /T /C /L /Q(Where USER is your user name) - Press enter -- - JB Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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| Guest | Re: Can't access a second hard drive! Jimmy Brush;2539545 Wrote:
hello, i have the same problem! i found the forum after searching google... i tried the method you mentioned but im not very familar with cmd and i tried to but i dont know how to get from my C drive to D drive in cmd i tried the cd command but i still dont know when its on D then when i tried takeown /F . /A /R /D Y it does some stuff but only to my C drive ;- / can you help me please -- suicidal looney ------------------------------------------------------------------------ suicidal looney's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=32829 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=676653 http://forums.techarena.in | ||||||||||||
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