Vista Tutorial - Administrator Access

I am very new to this and have had to reinstall Vista Home Premium 32bit due to corruption of data. During the install I was given the opportunit to Back Up which i did.

I have now re installed and can see the back up but cannot access any of the data as it says i do not have the correct permissions. I have looked every wher for a solution.

Hi creativemesh and welcome to the vista forums

You will probably need to take ownership of the folders or drive that the backup files are held.

This is because when you re-installed vista although you main user may be called the same as the previous install in reality it will have different security identity. vista will still recognise that the files are owned by the original user but not recognise it and therefore give the error you receive.

have a look at the following tutorials, take ownership of the backup data and give your new user at least read access

Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums

Folder permissions - Vista Forums

Hope this helps

Thanks very much for your help cracked it in the end.
What a fuss to get at your data no wonder Vista is not liked.
Thanks again

Hi creativemesh,

glad to hear you have it fixed...

and yes Vista has it's quirks but I've had similar problems on all windows versions since the take up of NTFS with windows NT - so it's standard practice for me to check any drive I'm adding to a pc that contains data on NTFS.

Thanks again, but i have now found that i am having to change the security on each file as I am not able to change the properties of a whole folder, I have music tracks and each file has to have the properties changed am I doing something wrong.
Thanks

Hi creativemesh,

when taking ownership or applying permissions you should have a tick box to "apply to subcontainers and files" or similar checking this should apply the changes to the folder and all it's contents.

am actually on XP machine at the moment so can't check exact wording

hope this helps

Thanks for that but i can only get that to work on some of the files and not all

Tried everything bt have to change the permissions on every file and not on a folder can you assist further please. Sorry to be a pain.