Taking Ownership of Folders

[Daddy]

I dual-boot XP Home SP 3 and the Win7 RC. XP was installed first. Win7 was installed into an empty partition on a second physical hard disk.

Long ago I moved all my data (documents, photos, music, videos) to a separate partition. So my first hard disk has two partitions: a software partition and a data partition. My second hard drive also has two partitions: a storage partition and the partition with Win 7.

I would like to access the folders in the data partition (on the first disc) from Win 7 but, of course, my Win 7 user account is not the owner of those folders. My Win XP user account is the owner. Not surprisingly, when I attempt to access the data partition from Win 7 I get the message: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder."

Finally, my question: Win 7 offers me the opportunity to access the data partition, saying: "Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder." What exactly happens if I click Continue? Does this mean that my Win 7 user account becomes owner of the folders, and if so, does my Win XP user account /lose/ ownership of the folder? Is there a way to share my data partition with XP and 7?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

P.S. I would cross-post to a Windows 7 newsgroup...if I could find one.

 

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I dual-boot XP Home SP 3 and the Win7 RC. XP was installed first. Win7 was
installed into an empty partition on a second physical hard disk.

Long ago I moved all my data (documents, photos, music, videos) to a
separate partition. So my first hard disk has two partitions: a software
partition and a data partition. My second hard drive also has two
partitions: a storage partition and the partition with Win 7.

I would like to access the folders in the data partition (on the first disc)
from Win 7 but, of course, my Win 7 user account is not the owner of those
folders. My Win XP user account is the owner. Not surprisingly, when I
attempt to access the data partition from Win 7 I get the message: "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder."

Finally, my question: Win 7 offers me the opportunity to access the data
partition, saying: "Click Continue to permanently get access to this
folder." What exactly happens if I click Continue? Does this mean that my
Win 7 user account becomes owner of the folders, and if so, does my Win XP
user account /lose/ ownership of the folder? Is there a way to share my data
partition with XP and 7?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

P.S. I would cross-post to a Windows 7 newsgroup...if I could find one.

 

[Roy Smith]

I dual-boot XP Home SP 3 and the Win7 RC. XP was installed first.
[..snip..]

I would like to access the folders in the data partition (on the
first disc) from Win 7 but, of course, my Win 7 user account is not
the owner of those folders. My Win XP user account is the owner. Not
surprisingly, when I attempt to access the data partition from Win 7
I get the message: "You don't currently have permission to access
this folder."

This is normal...

Finally, my question: Win 7 offers me the opportunity to access the
data partition, saying: "Click Continue to permanently get access to
this folder." What exactly happens if I click Continue? Does this
mean that my Win 7 user account becomes owner of the folders, and if
so, does my Win XP user account /lose/ ownership of the folder? Is
there a way to share my data partition with XP and 7?

No... your WinXP account will still be the owner, all Win7 will do is
modify the security settings to allow it to access those folders.

P.S. I would cross-post to a Windows 7 newsgroup...if I could find
one.

So far there are not any English newsgroups. Now if you can read &
speak Italian... Though with Win& being released in Oct I would expect
to see Win7 newsgroups any day now, but then I'm not going to hold my
breath for it either.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Changing ownership does not affect access rights to files and folders.

Pressing "continue" in Win7 will change [edit] the ACLs (Access Control
Lists) of the folder / files to grant access to the Win7 user.

It should not prevent any previous user from obtaining access, as M$ is
well aware of the ramifications of this.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.




I dual-boot XP Home SP 3 and the Win7 RC. XP was installed first. Win7
was installed into an empty partition on a second physical hard disk.

Long ago I moved all my data (documents, photos, music, videos) to a
separate partition. So my first hard disk has two partitions: a software
partition and a data partition. My second hard drive also has two
partitions: a storage partition and the partition with Win 7.

I would like to access the folders in the data partition (on the first
disc) from Win 7 but, of course, my Win 7 user account is not the owner
of those folders. My Win XP user account is the owner. Not surprisingly,
when I attempt to access the data partition from Win 7 I get the
message: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder."

Finally, my question: Win 7 offers me the opportunity to access the data
partition, saying: "Click Continue to permanently get access to this
folder." What exactly happens if I click Continue? Does this mean that
my Win 7 user account becomes owner of the folders, and if so, does my
Win XP user account /lose/ ownership of the folder? Is there a way to
share my data partition with XP and 7?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

P.S. I would cross-post to a Windows 7 newsgroup...if I could find one.

 

[Daddy]

Thanks to you both for your helpful replies.

Daddy