I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.

The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
nite-nite.

How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?

Thanks.

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>I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.
>
> The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
> nite-nite.
>
> How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?
>
> Thanks.

You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.

On Sep 18, 7:57*am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:42c39f60-5791-423b-a4dc-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> >I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.
>
> > The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
> > nite-nite.
>
> > How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
> look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.

You can't seize ownership if you can't access permissions under
security.

I will try booting to safe mode and seeing what I can do.
Otherwise I may have to backup the files are format the drive.

Andy

On Sep 18, 7:57*am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:42c39f60-5791-423b-a4dc-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> >I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.
>
> > The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
> > nite-nite.
>
> > How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
> look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.

I got the problem fixed.

I had to quick reformat from FAT 32 to NTFS.
I am pretty sure that it was a NTFS drive, but who cares as long as
the problem is fixed.

No sweat as the drive was only 6 GB.

Andy

On Sep 19, 8:45*pm, Mint <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 7:57*am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:42c39f60-5791-423b-a4dc-(E-Mail Removed)....
>
> > >I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.
>
> > > The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
> > > nite-nite.
>
> > > How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?
>
> > > Thanks.
>
> > You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
> > look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.
>
> I got the problem fixed.
>
> I had to quick reformat from FAT 32 to NTFS.
> I am pretty sure that it was a NTFS drive, but who cares as long as
> the problem is fixed.
>
> No sweat as the drive was only 6 GB.
>
> Andy

You seem to have stumbled upon the most likely solution - won't work
with FAT or FAT32.

Vista has the same feature.

On Sep 19, 9:11*pm, Jose <jose_e...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sep 19, 8:45*pm, Mint <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 18, 7:57*am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > > <chocolatemint77...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> > >news:42c39f60-5791-423b-a4dc-(E-Mail Removed)....
>
> > > >I can't access the permissions on a drive even under an Admin account.
>
> > > > The drive used to be a secondary drive until my primary drive went
> > > > nite-nite.
>
> > > > How can I "rope that little doggie" in ?
>
> > > > Thanks.
>
> > > You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help,then
> > > look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.
>
> > I got the problem fixed.
>
> > I had to quick reformat from FAT 32 to NTFS.
> > I am pretty sure that it was a NTFS drive, but who cares as long as
> > the problem is fixed.
>
> > No sweat as the drive was only 6 GB.
>
> > Andy
>
> You seem to have stumbled upon the most likely solution - won't work
> with FAT or FAT32.
>
> Vista has the same feature.

I would have preferred leaving it at Fat 32 since it could be read
from Win95 and up.

Andy