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Old hard drive permission to open files on Vista
My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my
new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try opening files from it I'm getting trouble with permission. I have tried changing permissions on the security tab of properties but not having much luck, although I had a bit of luck with idividual files within folders but cant for the life of me work out how to set it for whole folders and subfolders, and now I'm going around in circles getting more frustrated with this whole thing. Anyone shed any light on a simple solution or have I got to go through setting the security permission for every idividual file? Regards |
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Old hard drive permission to open files on Vista
I would recommend that you first try changing ownership of the drive.
Properties security advanced owner change to yourself (be sure to check to change sub folders etc) Michael "Woodzys" wrote in message news My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try opening files from it I'm getting trouble with permission. I have tried changing permissions on the security tab of properties but not having much luck, although I had a bit of luck with idividual files within folders but cant for the life of me work out how to set it for whole folders and subfolders, and now I'm going around in circles getting more frustrated with this whole thing. Anyone shed any light on a simple solution or have I got to go through setting the security permission for every idividual file? Regards |