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Hi All,
I recently bought a new notebook with vista business pre-installed. I
managed to put xp dual booting with vista on it after a lot of effort. My
problem is, prior to having xp installed, I browsed some files on an external
hard disk, and when I return to xp, I no longer have access to those
folder/files, since vista had earlier taken ownership of them. I know I can
go back to vista, and go through each file and grant access rights one at a
time...but this will take forever going through thousands of files. To
further complicate the issue, vista only has ownership of the root folder,
and a small number of files within it, so if I tried sharing the entire
folder I still cannot access all the files. Is there a way I can take
ownership of files under vista in bulk, then release access rights? or can I
somehow just cancel vista ownership entirely?
many thanks in advance!!
I recently bought a new notebook with vista business pre-installed. I
managed to put xp dual booting with vista on it after a lot of effort. My
problem is, prior to having xp installed, I browsed some files on an external
hard disk, and when I return to xp, I no longer have access to those
folder/files, since vista had earlier taken ownership of them. I know I can
go back to vista, and go through each file and grant access rights one at a
time...but this will take forever going through thousands of files. To
further complicate the issue, vista only has ownership of the root folder,
and a small number of files within it, so if I tried sharing the entire
folder I still cannot access all the files. Is there a way I can take
ownership of files under vista in bulk, then release access rights? or can I
somehow just cancel vista ownership entirely?
many thanks in advance!!