Vista File Ownership Change

[Michael Gerbasio]

Hi,
I had my system running WinXP, then upgraded to Vista Home (clean install)
and finally Vista Ultimate upgrade. I have two dirves, the c drive has
Vista, the d drive just my files. Somehow, the file ownership on the d drive
is set incorrectly, to a number "S-xxx" rather than my username. I guess
this was some security id number for the username that was disassociated
with the clean install. So, is there an easy way to take owner ship of the
files? I know I can click on these individually and take ownership. I tried
taking owership of the folder but that doesn't change the file ownership.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi Michael--

I don't know why your permissions should change because of the Vista
Ultimate upgrade.

You can take possession of the entire D drive. Just right click D drive
either from the Start menu or type diskmgmt.msc in the run box and rt. click
it>security tab>choose profile>add/edit>make sure a check mark is in all the
permissions boxes. You may have to click Add>type users in the object
box>put a check mark in all the permissions boxes.

CH

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

When you are on the ownership tab in edit mode, make sure to tick the box at
the bottom left to propagate to all sub folders and containers.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Michael Gerbasio]

Thanks for the help guys. That fixed it.

Regards-Michael G.

 

[Guest]

Hi John, I have a laptop that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium (so no
upgrade issues), but I am having a similar problem. I tried to follow your
html example, but for a couple of files that I am unable to delete, the
advanced security settings says,

Unable to display current owner

I am the administrator, but am not able to change the above to anything.
Thoughts?

 

[Ballistic]

you are sure you are running as administrator, or are you just logged in as
administrator.

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[Leo]

Maybe this will help:

Step by step instruction on how to take ownership of a folder



Run CMD (as administrator) and type: takeown [path] /f <filename or folder>

OR

- Right-click the file/folder you want to own, click properties

- Click Security Tab

- Click Advanced

- Click the Owner Tab

- Click Edit

- Select the Administrators group from the list

- Click OK

- Click OK

- Click OK

You have now taken 'Ownership' of the file and you can close the property

Windows



Now again



1) Right-click on the file

2) Select Properties

3) Go to the Security tab again, click the Advanced button

4) Now Press Edit, then double-click 'Administrators' in the list and tick

the 'allow' box for 'Full control'



You have now taken 'Full control' of file


--
Leo

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