access denied to my external hard drive in XP home edition

[Ranjith]

hi
I have been a samsung external hard drive in my laptop with xp professional
edition. The ownership of the hard drives is with the log in in my laptop.
When i use the hard drive in my PC with home edition, its able to detect the
drive but im not able to access. error message is "access is denied"
I think its an ownership issue. Any idea how i can configure my hard drive
to make it accessible from any machine/login?

 

[Vinod Chandramouli]

take ownership of the harddrive.

Here is how you do it

http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/acls2.shtml

regards
Vinod Chandramouli
http://169254.blogspot.com

 

[mhc]

hi
I have been a samsung external hard drive in my laptop with xp professional
edition. The ownership of the hard drives is with the log in in my laptop.
When i use the hard drive in my PC with home edition, its able to detect the
drive but im not able to access. error message is "access is denied"
I think its an ownership issue. Any idea how i can configure my hard drive
to make it accessible from any machine/login?

The best way to deal with this is to never set user permissions or ownership
on drives which will be shared between computers. You need to set group
permissions and ownership because they will be retained across computers.
Here's how to do this:

1) Connect the hard disk to your laptop.

2) Go to Windows Explorer, right-click on the drive name, select Properties,
and then click on the Security tab.

3) Click the Add button, type "Everyone" (without the quotes!), and then
press Enter. Now click on the Everyone name you just added, then click the
box which says "Full Control", and then click OK.

4) Repeat step 2.

5) Highlight a name other than Everyone (Owner, system, etc) and click
delete. Repeat this with every name other than Everyone. What you want is
the only name in the "group or user names" box to be "Everyone".

6) Click the Advanced button, click the Owner tab, and change the owner to
"Administrators". Then check the "Replace owner on subcontainers" box and
click OK.

7) Click the Advanced button again, check the "Replace permission entries on
child objects" box and click OK. Once complete, click OK to return to
Windows Explorer.

You should now be able to connect the hard disk to your desktop -- or any
other XP computer.