Can't access permissions on drive that used to be secondary

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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.
 
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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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 need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.
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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
 
You need to seize ownership of the problem folders. Click Start/Help, then
look for help on Ownership if unsure how it's done.
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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
 
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
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You seem to have stumbled upon the most likely solution - won't work
with FAT or FAT32.

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

Vista has the same feature.
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I would have preferred leaving it at Fat 32 since it could be read
from Win95 and up.

Andy
 
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