Cant access Hard disk

I just finished setting up Vista on my Media Center PC. I set it up on
a new drive so no prolems with upgrades etc.

I used my old C: drive as a spare (its now D but although vista
recognzed it, it won't let me open the drive in explorer etc. I
suspected that it may be a permissions problem, so I went into the
properties of the drive and the security tab, and enabled everything for
Admins and System. Still no access!

How do I access my drive?


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TFLeonard

I'm guessing that it is an ownership problem. Try this link. Post
back whether it helps your problem or not.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html

-Paul Randall

"TFLeonard" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I just finished setting up Vista on my Media Center PC. I set it up
> on
> a new drive so no prolems with upgrades etc.
>
> I used my old C: drive as a spare (its now D but although vista
> recognzed it, it won't let me open the drive in explorer etc. I
> suspected that it may be a permissions problem, so I went into the
> properties of the drive and the security tab, and enabled everything
> for
> Admins and System. Still no access!
>
> How do I access my drive?
>
>
> --
> TFLeonard

Tried both the automatic and manuel ways and although it seems to go
through the process the end result is that when I double-click on the
hard disk, I still get access denied. What's wierd is that obviously
these actions can access the drive and when I watch the process work I
can see filenames fly by, so I
am quite sure there's no hardware problem, just an annoying Vista
security issue (reminds me of UNIX). Anyway any other ideas?


--
TFLeonard

"TFLeonard" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Tried both the automatic and manuel ways and although it seems to go
> through the process the end result is that when I double-click on
> the
> hard disk, I still get access denied. What's wierd is that
> obviously
> these actions can access the drive and when I watch the process work
> I
> can see filenames fly by, so I
> am quite sure there's no hardware problem, just an annoying Vista
> security issue (reminds me of UNIX). Anyway any other ideas?

Hopefully someone else will have some other ideas.

-Paul Randall

I got around my problem by turning off UAC.
If anyone knows a more "elegant" way to solve this problem, let me
know. Thanks.


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TFLeonard

I'm having the same problem. How did you turn off UAC? I piggy backed my
old HD and have the same problem. I can't access any files until I give
permission. I have a load of files and this will take forever. Did turning
off the UAC get you to access all the files? I want to give permission to
the hard drive.
--
Richard


"TFLeonard" wrote:

>
> I got around my problem by turning off UAC.
> If anyone knows a more "elegant" way to solve this problem, let me
> know. Thanks.
>
>
> --
> TFLeonard
>