Saving Files to other drives denied

[Guest]

I have 3 drives in my system and one is my general data drive where I keep
all my personal files.

Now soem programs in Vista allow me access to save files there but others
won't for example Wordpad and Notepad whereas Movie Maker allows it.

I am the sys admin and having checked the permissions the administrator has
full access to the drive. I can save the file to the Documents folder and
then copy it across although it asks for admin approval which i give.

Surely I shouldn't have to mess around with permissions for this, this will
be a night mare for any home user who hasn't a clue about these things
especially if like me they want a separate drive for their personal data.

Any ideas who to get around this.

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Hello,

In Windows Vista, even though you are an administrator, the programs you run
are only given "normal user" permission. In effect, any folder outside your
user profile directory is "read-only", unless you are running an
administrative program that asks for permission, or you explicitly give a
program admin permission by right-clicking it and clicking Run As
Administrator.

This becomes a problem in a multi-boot scenario, when you need write access
to files that were created from another version of Windows.

The solution is to change the permissions on the folders that you need
access to.

Since you have a partition set up just for your data files, you can change
the permission on the drive itself.

1) Open an admin explorer

- Click start
- Type explorer
- Right-click windows explorer under programs when it comes up, then click
run as administrator

2) Gain access to the drive

- Browse to Computer
- Right-click on the drive in question
- Click Properties
- Click Security Tab
- Click Edit
- Click Advanced
- Click Owner
- Click Administrators
- Click OK
- Click OK
- Click OK

3) Change permissions

- Right-click the drive
- Click Properties
- Click Security tab
- Click Edit
- Click Add
- Type your username and press enter
- Select full control
- Click OK

 

[Guest]

Thanks for help. I had the same problem but it is now solved, but only
partially.

I have 4 drives. C, D, E and F. I have WinXP Pro in C and Vista RC2 in E.

D and F just contain data. They are neither boot partitions nor system
partitions.

I am able to change the permissions to D and F but I am unable to change for
C and E. Isn't there any other way to set permissions so that I can save
files directly to these drives and their sub-folders?

Thanks!

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Hello,

Changing permissions at the drive-level is OK for data-only partitons, but
not recommended for drives that have operating systems installed on them.

For your C and E drives, you should only modify permissions as I explained
on folders that contain files you save data in (for example, Documents,
Music, Videos, and any folders you may have created yourself). Changing
permissions on operating-system-created folders such as Windows and Program
Files is very tricky and could have unintended side-effects that could
affect your ability to dual-boot.

Not to mention it would make your computer about as secure as Windows 95!