Administrator Access

I am very new to this and have had to reinstall Vista Home Premium 32bit
due to corruption of data. During the install I was given the opportunit
to Back Up which i did.

I have now re installed and can see the back up but cannot access any
of the data as it says i do not have the correct permissions. I have
looked every wher for a solution.


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creativemesh

Hi creativemesh and welcome to the vista forums arty:

You will probably need to take ownership of the folders or drive that
the backup files are held.

This is because when you re-installed vista although you main user may
be called the same as the previous install in reality it will have
different security identity. vista will still recognise that the files
are owned by the original user but not recognise it and therefore give
the error you receive.

have a look at the following tutorials, take ownership of the backup
data and give your new user at least read access

'Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html)

'Folder permissions - Vista Forums'
(http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...rmissions.html)

Hope this helps


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barman58

Regards,
*Nigel*
the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.,- frank herbert

Thanks very much for your help cracked it in the end.
What a fuss to get at your data no wonder Vista is not liked.
Thanks again


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creativemesh

Hi creativemesh,

glad to hear you have it fixed...

and yes Vista has it's quirks but I've had similar problems on all
windows versions since the take up of NTFS with windows NT - so it's
standard practice for me to check any drive I'm adding to a pc that
contains data on NTFS.


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barman58

Regards,
*Nigel*
the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.,- frank herbert

Thanks again, but i have now found that i am having to change the
security on each file as I am not able to change the properties of a
whole folder, I have music tracks and each file has to have the
properties changed am I doing something wrong.
Thanks


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creativemesh

Hi creativemesh,

when taking ownership or applying permissions you should have a tick
box to "apply to subcontainers and files" or similar checking this
should apply the changes to the folder and all it's contents.

am actually on XP machine at the moment so can't check exact wording

hope this helps


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barman58

Regards,
*Nigel*
the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.,- frank herbert

Thanks for that but i can only get that to work on some of the files an
not al

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creativemesh

Tried everything bt have to change the permissions on every file and no
on a folder can you assist further please. Sorry to be a pain

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creativemesh