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acsun
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      05-31-2009

I recently just took the hard drive out of my old laptop that ran xp and
put it into an enclosure. I'm now trying to access the files on the hard
drive from a vista machine and each time I want to do something with a
file I have to change its permission. However I have a lot of files on
the hard drive and going to properties to change the permission each
time is a task that will take hours. I tried selecting all the files,
but when I looked at their properties the security tab doesn't appear in
the window. So I then ran an elevated command prompt and use the icacls
command. I typed this in:

icacls *.jpg /grant myNameF)

it should grant myName full access to all the .jpg files in the current
directory but it just prints "Picture 003.jpg: Access is denied.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files"

I know I can change permissions on each individual file successfully
but I have no idea how to do them all at once. Does anyone have an idea
on how to do this or see if I am doing something wrong.

Thanks.


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rive0108
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      05-31-2009

Have you tried the tutorial on how to take ownership of the entire
drive?
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html


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