Access Denied (XP and Vista permissions issue)

So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to my new
Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I cannot
access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video, text
and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such and
while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access and
ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the file.
It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator and
reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I do
that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in the
process?

"Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to my
> new
> Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I
> cannot
> access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video,
> text
> and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
> permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
> being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
> taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such and
> while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access
> and
> ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the
> file.
> It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator and
> reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I do
> that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in
> the
> process?


I know about the Attrib command that works on XP and Vista.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
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> "Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FD88B6FE-485F-4131-9EE9-9EFD7B093A92@microsoft.com...
>> So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to my
>> new
>> Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I
>> cannot
>> access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video,
>> text
>> and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
>> permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
>> being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
>> taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such
>> and
>> while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access
>> and
>> ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the
>> file.
>> It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator and
>> reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I
>> do
>> that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in
>> the
>> process?
>
>
> I know about the Attrib command that works on XP and Vista.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

The attrib command will not help the OP to modify the access control list
(ACL) for the files and folders. It can only modify or display the
attributes of files or folders (hidden, readonly etc.). The command-line
tool to view or modify ACLs is named CACLS.

-Pete

"Pete Delgado" <Peter.Delgado@noads.net> wrote in message
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> "Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
> news:ess05E24HHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FD88B6FE-485F-4131-9EE9-9EFD7B093A92@microsoft.com...
>>> So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to
>>> my new
>>> Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I
>>> cannot
>>> access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video,
>>> text
>>> and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
>>> permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
>>> being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
>>> taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such
>>> and
>>> while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access
>>> and
>>> ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the
>>> file.
>>> It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator
>>> and
>>> reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I
>>> do
>>> that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in
>>> the
>>> process?
>>
>>
>> I know about the Attrib command that works on XP and Vista.
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
>
> The attrib command will not help the OP to modify the access control list
> (ACL) for the files and folders. It can only modify or display the
> attributes of files or folders (hidden, readonly etc.). The command-line
> tool to view or modify ACLs is named CACLS.
>
> -Pete
>

Just to correct myself and get into Vista mode, ICACLS is the program to use
on Vista because it knows about integrity levels.

-Pete

I have spent about three days on this issue. The big problem is that in the
Start Menu there you can enable the "My Documents" selection. Clicking on
the Old My Documents gives the access denied error. I found that to avoid
confusion and frustration I need to just leave that option off in the
customization process. Selecting my name at the top of the Start Menu gets
me to the current Documents. The other issue is that the junction that
points from "My Documents" to "Documents" does not seem fool proof. Programs
I have which try to write to the old My Documents completely fail and give a
"No Folder Found" type error. Is there a fix?



"Pete Delgado" wrote:

>
> "Pete Delgado" <Peter.Delgado@noads.net> wrote in message
> news:%23FX3ks$4HHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
> > news:ess05E24HHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> "Vh" <Vh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:FD88B6FE-485F-4131-9EE9-9EFD7B093A92@microsoft.com...
> >>> So here's my dilemma - I've connected my old Win XP formatted drive to
> >>> my new
> >>> Vista system and the device works just fine except for the fact that I
> >>> cannot
> >>> access at least half of the file on the volume. I've got music, video,
> >>> text
> >>> and web documents that I need to copy over but I can't seem to gain
> >>> permission to do so no matter what I try. I've disabled UAC for the time
> >>> being, believing that to be the trouble but without success. I've tried
> >>> taking ownership and granting permissions to individual files and such
> >>> and
> >>> while the security profile states that I (Administrator) has full access
> >>> and
> >>> ownership of a particular file, I still am unable to copy or even the
> >>> file.
> >>> It's been recommended that I run a command prompt as an administrator
> >>> and
> >>> reset the permissions on the old drive, which sounds great but how do I
> >>> do
> >>> that? How do ensure that my permissions on my boot drive are not lost in
> >>> the
> >>> process?
> >>
> >>
> >> I know about the Attrib command that works on XP and Vista.
> >> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
> >
> > The attrib command will not help the OP to modify the access control list
> > (ACL) for the files and folders. It can only modify or display the
> > attributes of files or folders (hidden, readonly etc.). The command-line
> > tool to view or modify ACLs is named CACLS.
> >
> > -Pete
> >
>
> Just to correct myself and get into Vista mode, ICACLS is the program to use
> on Vista because it knows about integrity levels.
>
> -Pete
>
>
>