Hi,

I have an external drive which I used to back stuff onto in XP. Now in
Vista, I can access most of the files but on some folders the security
settings on them mean that not even Administrator can open the folders, and
even going into Security I'm not allowed to update the user list to give
myself permissions. Is there any way around this so that I can read my
files?

Thanks

Nick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an external drive which I used to back stuff onto in XP. Now in
> Vista, I can access most of the files but on some folders the security
> settings on them mean that not even Administrator can open the
> folders, and even going into Security I'm not allowed to update the
> user list to give myself permissions. Is there any way around this so
> that I can read my files?
>
> Thanks

can you take ownership of the files/directories? I'm not sure if you tried
and I don't have Vista installed so can't look but it's worth a shot.

"harikeo" <harikeo@sunside> wrote in message
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> Nick wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an external drive which I used to back stuff onto in XP. Now in
>> Vista, I can access most of the files but on some folders the security
>> settings on them mean that not even Administrator can open the
>> folders, and even going into Security I'm not allowed to update the
>> user list to give myself permissions. Is there any way around this so
>> that I can read my files?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> can you take ownership of the files/directories? I'm not sure if you tried
> and I don't have Vista installed so can't look but it's worth a shot.
>

yup you have to take ownership of the said folder/subfolders/drives

>>> I have an external drive which I used to back stuff onto in XP. Now in
>>> Vista, I can access most of the files but on some folders the security
>>> settings on them mean that not even Administrator can open the
>>> folders, and even going into Security I'm not allowed to update the
>>> user list to give myself permissions. Is there any way around this so
>>> that I can read my files?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> can you take ownership of the files/directories? I'm not sure if you
>> tried and I don't have Vista installed so can't look but it's worth a
>> shot.
>>
>
> yup you have to take ownership of the said folder/subfolders/drives

Thank you! Now I knew what I was looking for I was able to find the tab to
take ownership, and now I can get into my folders. Great!

Nick