Vista cannot access XP NTFS drive - permissions?

Hi All

I had a HDD fail in my Viao laptop which was running XP Pro...
Laptop has 2 x internal SATA HDDs (1 + 2).

I replaced the faulty drive (1) and did a clean install of Vista.
(This went very smoothly and found all devices etc.)

The problem is that I now cannot access the second drive (2); it says I
do not have permission to access the folders.

I would dearly like to retrive my data from drive (2).

Both the old XP and Vista installs have the same username and password.

How do I access the data on the XP drive???


TIA


Guy

Bigguy wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I had a HDD fail in my Viao laptop which was running XP Pro...
> Laptop has 2 x internal SATA HDDs (1 + 2).
>
> I replaced the faulty drive (1) and did a clean install of Vista.
> (This went very smoothly and found all devices etc.)
>
> The problem is that I now cannot access the second drive (2); it says I
> do not have permission to access the folders.
>
> I would dearly like to retrive my data from drive (2).
>
> Both the old XP and Vista installs have the same username and password.
>
> How do I access the data on the XP drive???

You need to take ownership of the files on the XP drive.

Check the permissions of the file or folder the file is saved in and take
ownership:

1. Right-click the file or folder, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab.
3. Under Group or user names, click your name to see the permissions you
have.

To open a file, you need to have read permission. For more information on
permissions, see What are permissions?

http://tinyurl.com/2j9vgr

To take ownership of a folder:

1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click
Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
3. Click Edit. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an
administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide
confirmation.
4. Click the name of the person you want to give ownership to.
5. If you want that person to be the owner of files and subfolders in this
folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
6. Click OK

Malke
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:28:48 -0700, Malke <>
wrote:

>> Both the old XP and Vista installs have the same username and password.
>>
>> How do I access the data on the XP drive???
>
>You need to take ownership of the files on the XP drive.

See Malke's post for details on how to fix this.

Every username on a system using NTFS security (NT, Win2000, Win2003,
XP, and Vista NTFS partitions) has a unique identifier that is
generated by windows to identify the user. Creating another user
account, even with the same username and password, gets you a new
unique identifier. Since it's a new identifier, there's no match, you
don't get access.