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Built New Computer; now, XP Security Denies Access to previous Hard Drive!

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luciddreams

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Hello, :sun:

I have recently built a new computer, and I want to transfer the files from my old 8Mb 120GB Western Digital to my new 8MB 200GB Seagate. Both drives are currently installed on the new computer (Seagate is the master?the Western Digital still has OS installed from the previous system). If it is relevant, both drives are single partitions. Windows XP pro is installed on both hard drives.

Now, when I browse my E: drive (the WD slave) under Documents and Settings, my User Name as well as any child folder under User Name, I am given the following warning:

E:\Docments and Settings\User Name\ ? is not accessible. Access is denied.

So, I right click the relevant folder, go to properties, Securities, and then I am prompted:

"You do not have permission to edit the current permission setting for [folder], but you can take ownership or change auditing setting."

So, I do. I click OK, Advanced, Owner, and add myself. Click APPLY, OK, and nothing ever _seems_ to change. But, as soon as I close then reopen the property window again, I am able to click ADD, next add myself, and then successfully give myself full access. Good! Now I can open the folder and view its contents!

Unfortunately, that?s as far as it goes. All child folders will still be locked, and I have to do this for EVERY folder! Everything I have said thus far about folders is true of files as well, the only difference being files give a slightly different security warning.

I learned I can select a group of folders to make the process a bit faster, but do you know how many folders and subfolders I have! This would take me weeks, nay months. And for all my files, this process can only be done one at a time. 🙁

And yes, I tried the obvious by going into ADVANCED SECURITY SETTINGS and tried checking and unchecking ?INHERIT FROM PARENT THE PERMISSION ENTRIES THAT APPLY TO CHILD OBJECTS? as well as ?REPLACE PERMISSION ENTRIES ON ALL CHILD OBJECTS WITH ENTRIES SHOWN HERE THAT APPLY TO CHILD OBJECTS.? The former doesn?t seem to affect anything. The latter, which seems to be _exactly_ what I desire, _unchecks itself_ as soon as I click APPLY or OK!!!!! Grrrrrr!!!! :|

So, now I can access any SPECIFIC folder or file from my hard drive through this long process, but using this method it would take months to copy the entire My Documents folder to my Seagate. Does anybody know how I can just tell windows to allow me accesses to the entire E: drive (the WD slave)? I have not enabled and special securities, passwords, encryptions, or any other sort of protection on that drive.

How do I Outsmart the XP that has Outsmarted me? 😕

I thank you for any help!
 
And yes, I tried the obvious by going into ADVANCED SECURITY SETTINGS and tried checking and unchecking ?INHERIT FROM PARENT THE PERMISSION ENTRIES THAT APPLY TO CHILD OBJECTS? as well as ?REPLACE PERMISSION ENTRIES ON ALL CHILD OBJECTS WITH ENTRIES SHOWN HERE THAT APPLY TO CHILD OBJECTS.? The former doesn?t seem to affect anything. The latter, which seems to be _exactly_ what I desire, _unchecks itself_ as soon as I click APPLY or OK!!!!! Grrrrrr!!!!
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The latter is the setting you want. I'm surprised it didn't work. Just to verify:

1. You went to the root (User Name) folder and went to Properties/Security, then added your user name with Full Control.
2. You clicked Advanced, check Replace Permission Entries on all Child Objects and clicked ok.
3. You clicked ok in the Properties window.

The "Replace Permission Entries" checkbox will uncheck itself after you click ok (I'm not sure why they made this a checkbox; it's a run-once process).

If this isn't working for you then I'm stumped.
 
Originally posted by: luciddreams
Any Ideas? Anyone?
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I was going to ask about encryption, but as you can acces some of the files, thats not it. Did you try taking ownership up at the root or e:\Documents and Settings vs further downt he tree?

Bill
 
Yes, I have even tried to take control of E: itself.

Strange, though, now when I do the above process to try and get access to all child directories and files at any level, XP searches through all the files under that directory; however, the permissions never actually change. Difficult!
 
Hmm... Perhaps if I knew how this security worked in theory I could overcome it. That is, is this security stored in my Western Digital's OS? In the file itself? (1) Would using the Western Digital as a master, then repairing using the installation disk (since its XP was installed for a whole different computer) offer to me access to my files again? (2) Instead of trying to enable permissions on the slave, could I disable my XP from even looking for permission in the first place?

...transferring files from hard drives was never this difficult in Windows 98!
 
Yall pretty close forgot only one thing 🙂 when you go to sec and advanced then owner check
(Replace owner and subcontainers and objects) and click apply you wait a whille like 2 min you done
 
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