Take over Vista permissions from Xp

[Guest]

Hello.

I am troubleshooting a newer vista machine (Acer, Vista Basic) and I need to
copy the contents of the drive to my Windows XP Pro Data backup system.

Normally, with an XP HD I would just take over the permissions on the drive
from the backup system and then have control over the files.

When I apply the same process to the HD from the Vista machine, I get errors
on all the files advising that the permissions cannot be changed.

Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

Ken

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

have you tried taking ownership over the drive? Right-click it ->
Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> tab "Owner" and select your username.
Then, try applying your permissions again.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo