Delete permissions from removed hard drive?

[Byron]

Hopefully this is the right forum for this issue.

I had a Windows 2000 Server that used Active Directory to set some
directory permissions. It crashed, so I've removed the hard drive with
the web site data and mounted it as an external drive to a XP Pro PC in
my office to copy over the files and FTP them to a new server.

The problem is, the directories that had been set with restricted
permissions won't copy over or upload, because I don't have permissions
to a access them. But I don't see any way to remove the restrictive
permissions that were set on the other PC.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Herb Martin]

Hopefully this is the right forum for this issue.

I had a Windows 2000 Server that used Active Directory to set some
directory permissions. It crashed, so I've removed the hard drive with
the web site data and mounted it as an external drive to a XP Pro PC in
my office to copy over the files and FTP them to a new server.

The problem is, the directories that had been set with restricted
permissions won't copy over or upload, because I don't have permissions
to a access them. But I don't see any way to remove the restrictive
permissions that were set on the other PC.

Have you tried taking ownership (as Admin on the XP machine)?

Once owning the files you can give yourself permission, e.g.,:

cacls *.* /t /e /g Administrator:F

(The above is untested -- I typed it from memory -- and all Cacls.exe
commands are dangerous to some extent so be careful.)

Of course is the above works then so will Explorer.