Access Vista Partition from XP - How?

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Joe727

Hi - what security function do I need to disable in order to access my Vista
Beta 2 Build 5384 partition from my Retail XP Pro SP 2 partition?

Thanks

Joe
 
M

Mark D. VandenBerg

What warning or error message are you getting when you attempt to access the
partition that Vista is installed to? Are you able to "see" the Vista
partition from XP?
 
M

Mike Williams

Joe727 said:
Hi - what security function do I need to disable in order to access my Vista
Beta 2 Build 5384 partition from my Retail XP Pro SP 2 partition?

You'll probably have to go into Vista and update the security ACLs for
that partition to give Everyone rights to its contents.
 
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Joe727

I should have been clearer. I want to access Documents and Settings on
Vista. I get a pop up message that says something like: Access Denied.
You don't have permission to access this folder.

Joe
 
J

Joe727

Mike Williams said:
You'll probably have to go into Vista and update the security ACLs for
that partition to give Everyone rights to its contents.

What are the ACL's?

Joe
 
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mikeyhsd

no longer used, legacy folder for backward compatibility
check further down the tree under USERS and "username"



(e-mail address removed)



I should have been clearer. I want to access Documents and Settings on
Vista. I get a pop up message that says something like: Access Denied.
You don't have permission to access this folder.

Joe
 
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deebs

With online banking in the UK there was an expression along the lines of
"We are all online banker managers now!"

I guess that under Vista we will be able to say something like "We are
all computer administrators now"?
 
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Joe727

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

Joe

"mikeyhsd" <e-mail address snipped> wrote in message
no longer used, legacy folder for backward compatibility
check further down the tree under USERS and "username"

<e-mail address snipped>

I should have been clearer. I want to access Documents and Settings on
Vista. I get a pop up message that says something like: Access Denied.
You don't have permission to access this folder.

Joe
 
R

Rick Rogers

Hi Joe,

In Vista the user profiles are under C:\Users, not C:\Documents and
Settings.

To access the files, you need to take ownership of them as they currently
are locked to the Vista installation. If you have not done this before, see:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm and click the link on taking ownership.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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Joe727

Ok, thanks Rick.

Joe

Rick Rogers said:
Hi Joe,

In Vista the user profiles are under C:\Users, not C:\Documents and
Settings.

To access the files, you need to take ownership of them as they currently
are locked to the Vista installation. If you have not done this before,
see: http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm and click the link on taking
ownership.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 

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