Vista Permissions on old XP Drive

[archway1]

Hi,

I have recently installed Vista on my PC which used to have XP
installed. On this machine I had a data drive D that contained all my
documents etc. Now, while using Vista I have noticed numerous
permission problems with this drive, such as the administrators group
not having access, permissions not being propagated down to sub-
folders when trying to update permissions on the drive, old groups
from XP still having permissions granted etc.

Is there anything I can quickly do that will take control of this
drive in Vista and apply appropriate permissions and remove any old
ones that are obsolete from XP? I just want to reset the access on the
whole drive so it works with Vista without the headaches I have been
having.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Kurt Herman]

Right click on the drive in explorer. Select properties. Go to the security
tab. Choose the advanced button. Click the owner tab. click the edit button.
Select the new owner on the list (you). Check the "apply to all sub folders
and files". Hit apply. There you have it.

Kurt

 

[archway1]

I did that, but I am still having various issues. I would also like to
remove the old XP permissions, but it won't let me. Also, some files
are giving me access denied. Basically, it feels like it is in a bit
of a mess, so some way/tool of resetting everything would be useful,
although I am not sure if anything like that exists?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem. When you use the process below each file denies the
change. I have only been able to transfer ownership AND permissions on a
single file at a time. Thats about ten clicks per file. This is a big
problem. My reseller used a utility to get the data files off a disk from a
dead PC (motherboard) to this vista machine. I can't read ANY of the files
unless I manually change ownership and access permissions - for each of
20,000 files.

 

[archway1]

Yes, I noticed that some permission changes fail when applying against
a folder to then propagate against all the files/folders contained
within that folder. But when I do it manually on each individual file
it works. I am not going to be doing that against all the files on my
data drive making up 100GB!

If anyone has any useful suggestions....

Cheers

 

[Guest]

Me too. I can't change permissions on lots of the files and I can't even
delete the stuff i don't want. I think I'm going back to the store asking
them to save the files off - and then have them load XP over the Vista. Hear
that MS watchers? I've been reading the other strings and this is obviously a
major problem. Fix it. or tell us what to do.

 

[archway1]

From my point of view my experience with Vista has been very
favourable, except this one issue that is driving me crazy. I am sure
there must be more people out there with similar problems, unless I am
doing something wrong?

 

[Guest]

I guess the way to write a virus for vista is to not grant persions for their
deletions.

 

[Guest]

--
Not 2 sure Vista is very good

I did that, but I am still having various issues. I would also like to
remove the old XP permissions, but it won't let me. Also, some files
are giving me access denied. Basically, it feels like it is in a bit
of a mess, so some way/tool of resetting everything would be useful,
although I am not sure if anything like that exists?

Thanks

 

[archway1]

I think I have figured it out. Open a cmd prompt as administrator
using the "run as administrator" option from the popup menu. Then,
execute the following command:

ICACLS <Your Folder> /reset /T /C /L /Q

I just did this on my top level folder on the data drive and on first
inspection appears to have done what I wanted

 

[Sam]

Hi,

I have recently installed Vista on my PC which used to have XP
installed. On this machine I had a data drive D that contained all my
documents etc. Now, while using Vista I have noticed numerous
permission problems with this drive, such as the administrators group
not having access, permissions not being propagated down to sub-
folders when trying to update permissions on the drive, old groups
from XP still having permissions granted etc.

Is there anything I can quickly do that will take control of this
drive in Vista and apply appropriate permissions and remove any old
ones that are obsolete from XP? I just want to reset the access on the
whole drive so it works with Vista without the headaches I have been
having.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I had the same issue. This is what I did and it fixed it...

Run "cmd" from the start menu to get to a command prompt.
use xcopy to copy all the files to a new location:
ie. xcopy /s d:\stuff d:\stuff2
when done, make sure it's all there with right-click properties on both
folders and compare file count and total size.
Delete stuff
rename stuff2

When coping all the files will owned by the current user
the "dos" copy is 1000% faster than Win Explorer
Of course you'll need the disk space to do this.