Vista - Vista File Ownership Change

Hi,
I had my system running WinXP, then upgraded to Vista Home (clean install)
and finally Vista Ultimate upgrade. I have two dirves, the c drive has
Vista, the d drive just my files. Somehow, the file ownership on the d drive
is set incorrectly, to a number "S-xxx" rather than my username. I guess
this was some security id number for the username that was disassociated
with the clean install. So, is there an easy way to take owner ship of the
files? I know I can click on these individually and take ownership. I tried
taking owership of the folder but that doesn't change the file ownership.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

Hi,

When you are on the ownership tab in edit mode, make sure to tick the box at
the bottom left to propagate to all sub folders and containers.

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"Michael Gerbasio" <mwgerbasio@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Michael

Take a look at this tutorial and see if it helps.

Take Ownership of file

Regards

John

Thanks for the help guys. That fixed it.

Regards-Michael G.

"z3r010" <z3r010.2wcq05@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Hi John, I have a laptop that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium (so no
upgrade issues), but I am having a similar problem. I tried to follow your
html example, but for a couple of files that I am unable to delete, the
advanced security settings says,

Unable to display current owner

I am the administrator, but am not able to change the above to anything.
Thoughts?


"z3r010" wrote:

you are sure you are running as administrator, or are you just logged in as
administrator.

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"JK" <JK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Maybe this will help:

Step by step instruction on how to take ownership of a folder



Run CMD (as administrator) and type: takeown [path] /f <filename or folder>

OR

- Right-click the file/folder you want to own, click properties

- Click Security Tab

- Click Advanced

- Click the Owner Tab

- Click Edit

- Select the Administrators group from the list

- Click OK

- Click OK

- Click OK

You have now taken 'Ownership' of the file and you can close the property

Windows



Now again



1) Right-click on the file

2) Select Properties

3) Go to the Security tab again, click the Advanced button

4) Now Press Edit, then double-click 'Administrators' in the list and tick

the 'allow' box for 'Full control'



You have now taken 'Full control' of file


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