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| | 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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| | 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 |
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