Getting "destination folder access denied" on data drive

I recently installed Vista Ultimate as a dual-boot with my old XP-Pro.
I have a second hard drive in my system that I have been using as my
data drive for XP. I want to also use it as my data drive for Vista. I
am logged in to Vista with the same domain account as I have always
used in XP.

When I do anything that wants to create or modify then I get a dialog
that indicates "destination folder access denied" and I can choose
Continue, Skip, or Cancel. If I continue then I get a UAC prompt. I
read some earlier posts and have taken ownership of the drive and a
folder but the problem still persists.

Another intersting note is that I have a USB drive attached to my
system and I do NOT have the problem with that drive. I can do
anything without any op-ups.

My user is a domain admin...

Any help?
Thanks!
Karl

I'm almost positive this is your problem:
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...ard-drive.aspx

You are not having the problem with the USB drive because it is not
formatted with NTFS; i.e. it has no security on it.

"karlman" wrote:

> I recently installed Vista Ultimate as a dual-boot with my old XP-Pro.
> I have a second hard drive in my system that I have been using as my
> data drive for XP. I want to also use it as my data drive for Vista. I
> am logged in to Vista with the same domain account as I have always
> used in XP.
>
> When I do anything that wants to create or modify then I get a dialog
> that indicates "destination folder access denied" and I can choose
> Continue, Skip, or Cancel. If I continue then I get a UAC prompt. I
> read some earlier posts and have taken ownership of the drive and a
> folder but the problem still persists.
>
> Another intersting note is that I have a USB drive attached to my
> system and I do NOT have the problem with that drive. I can do
> anything without any op-ups.
>
> My user is a domain admin...
>
> Any help?
> Thanks!
> Karl
>
>

You will get this error message if you are running an older version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus software (pre windows vista). I have 2 computers in my shop. One is running Vista Ultimate and one is running XP Pro. When I tried to copy foles from the XP compute to the Vista computer I got destination folder access denied. I removed Kaspersky Anti-Virus and it resolved the problem. Apparently Kaspersky add some signature to the files that prevent them from being copied from and XP system to a Vista system.

Hope this helps you out

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Hi, degwar here, new member.
I came across this thread after ripping my hair out trying to gain access to my third hdd, a seagate 320Gb sata.
I could not get access at all.

I had loaded it under W2K, and forgot I write protected it.

No amount of share enabling could get access to it


After a long period of frustration I realized a simple fact.

My access rights were incorrect.

Here is how to fix it...

Open my computer.
Open any folder.

Click tools, folder options.

At the bottom is a check box called "enable simple file sharing"
.

UNCHECK THIS BOX!

Click apply to all folders, apply, ok.

Now right click the hdd, click properties, ownership.
Click add your username, apply to subfolders, apply, ok.

Windows should open a dialog box saying taking ownership of, and be busy for a while.

Note this is using XP x64, but I assume that Vista X64 is the same.

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!

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