Files locked

[Arthur]

Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.

Log in as Administrator and take ownership of the files.

 

[Sharon F]

Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

 

[Ramesh]

Arthur,

"Take Ownership" as suggested earlier.

Additional tip:
For XP Home, boot into safe mode and login as Administrator. Take Ownership
of files/folders.

Or, use the calcs.exe command line and reset the permissions. The following
comand line paramenter will change the ACLs of all files and directories on
drive C to allow full control for the Administrators local group:

"cacls c:\ /t /e /g Administrators:f"

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Ramesh
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Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.