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Old 02-25-2008   #1 (permalink)
Ed White


 
 

locked out of XP partition from Vista

I've been running XP Professional from a partition on my hard drive for a
while, and decided to see if my software will run on Vista now that SP1 is
out. So I installed Vista on the second HD partition, and when running Vista
couldn't access the My Documents folder on the XP partition. I then found
that under Vista, you can Take Ownership of a folder (if you have
administrative permissions), so I did that for the My Docs folder in the XP
partition, and I now have access from Vista to my XP partition docs. Problem
is, when I boot under the XP partition, and I'm locked out of all of my files
in My Documents ("Access Denied"). Under Vista, I've tried allowing Sharing
of the folder on the Network and all kinds of things, but everytime I boot
under XP I cannot access My Documents folder. Since I was only testing
Vista, I really need to access my files from XP. How do I do this??
--
Ed

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Old 02-25-2008   #2 (permalink)
Ed White


 
 

RE: locked out of XP partition from Vista

Actually, I managed to find the answer on my own.
'How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
--
Ed


"Ed White" wrote:
Quote:

> I've been running XP Professional from a partition on my hard drive for a
> while, and decided to see if my software will run on Vista now that SP1 is
> out. So I installed Vista on the second HD partition, and when running Vista
> couldn't access the My Documents folder on the XP partition. I then found
> that under Vista, you can Take Ownership of a folder (if you have
> administrative permissions), so I did that for the My Docs folder in the XP
> partition, and I now have access from Vista to my XP partition docs. Problem
> is, when I boot under the XP partition, and I'm locked out of all of my files
> in My Documents ("Access Denied"). Under Vista, I've tried allowing Sharing
> of the folder on the Network and all kinds of things, but everytime I boot
> under XP I cannot access My Documents folder. Since I was only testing
> Vista, I really need to access my files from XP. How do I do this??
> --
> Ed
My System SpecsSystem Spec
 

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