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05-02-2008
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| | Changing File Ownership 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 -- Seeking, but not finding |
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05-02-2008
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| | Re: Changing File Ownership "romeboy" <romeboy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:BE05A44E-7AE7-4815-B1EE-FD4097471BFB@xxxxxx Quote: > 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. > Type in ownership. Check item 2. bw.. |
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05-02-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Changing File Ownership  Quote: Originally Posted by romeboy  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 -- Seeking, but not finding Try to take ownership of the files, but when you get to step 15 in Option Two, see if also selecting "Everyone" with "Full permission" will allow you access afterwards. Take Ownership of file Shawn |
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05-02-2008
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| | Re: Changing File Ownership add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...menu-in-vista/ Install Download and unzip the files contained in the zipfile. Double-click the InstallTakeOwnership.reg file and click through the prompts. No reboot necessary. "romeboy" <romeboy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:BE05A44E-7AE7-4815-B1EE-FD4097471BFB@xxxxxx Quote: > 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 > > > > -- > Seeking, but not finding |
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05-04-2008
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| | 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/ -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com Winhelponline.com blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog "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 -- Seeking, but not finding |
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