Guest onesixtyfive Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Hi Im New To This Site So Forgive Me If This Has Been Posted well My Problem Is That I Have Home Premium Which Is A Big Problem lol well I Recently Got This Pc With Vista And My Old Pc Was a xp One Now I Have The Hard drive To My Old Pc Which I Connected vista By usb To Ied Converter It Reads fine But Wont Let Me Move Any Files Or Folders etc I Turned Of UAC Still Didn't Work And Some One Told Me Its Something To Do With Security Credentials Because I Now Have A Different User Name And Password What Can I Do I Need Some Of Them Files Asap :/ Any Help Will Be Appreciated O Before I Forget If I Put That Harddrive Say In A Mac Or Xp Will It Let Me Move Them To a external Harddrive ??? Thanks Again style_emoticons/ gong Crazy -- onesixtyfive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ onesixtyfive's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/onesixtyfive.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-security/1103065.htm http://forums.techarena.in Quote
Guest Dave Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 Since the files on that drive were created by a different user, you don't own them. To take control of them, you need to take ownership & change permissions. Assuming the files are on Drive D, and that you have an administrator account: Open a CMD prompt, by clicking on Start - All Programs - Accessories right-click on Command Prompt, select "Run as Administrator" takeown /f D:\ /r /d y icacls D:\ /grant administrators:F /t http://nemesisv.blogspot.com/2007/08/takin...p-in-vista.html -- Windows 7 beta http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "onesixtyfive" <onesixtyfive.3mmkls@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:onesixtyfive.3mmkls@DoNotSpam.com...<span style="color:blue"> > > Hi Im New To This Site So Forgive Me If This Has Been Posted > well My Problem Is That I Have Home Premium Which Is A Big Problem lol > well I Recently Got This Pc With Vista And My Old Pc Was a xp One Now I > Have The Hard drive To My Old Pc Which I Connected vista By usb To Ied > Converter It Reads fine But Wont Let Me Move Any Files Or Folders etc I > Turned Of UAC Still Didn't Work And Some One Told Me Its Something To Do > With Security Credentials Because I Now Have A Different User Name And > Password What Can I Do I Need Some Of Them Files Asap :/ Any Help Will > Be Appreciated O Before I Forget If I Put That Harddrive Say In A Mac Or > Xp Will It Let Me Move Them To a external Harddrive ??? Thanks Again style_emoticons/ > gong Crazy > > > -- > onesixtyfive > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > onesixtyfive's Profile: > http://forums.techarena.in/members/onesixtyfive.htm > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-security/1103065.htm > > http://forums.techarena.in > </span> Quote
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