Drive Help! yo all. got a new setup PC wise and i'm trying to shift all my files from my new harddrive onto the new massive fucker that i bought. however it's not letting me move over the "my documents" section of the drive because it is "protected" in some way i've checked and unchecked the relevant boxes and its still not letting me do it. is it something to do with it being off a different version of windows XP or the fact it came from an admin account? help would be great!
I would just create another folder within my documents, then move everything within the 'my documents' folder into the new folder. then it should move over fine.
You need to assign the rights to yourself to view the folder. 1) Right Click on the user's folder select Properties, and click the security tab. 2) Click Add and add yourself full permissions to the folder, then click apply. 3) Click on Advanced and tick "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects". If at any point during the above you get an "Access Denied" message, you need to take ownership of the folder. You must be logged on to the computer using an account that has administrative privileges. If you are running Windows XP Home Edition, in order to have access to the Security tab, you must first start in Safe Mode and log on with an account that has Administrative rights. If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File Sharing. By default, Windows XP Professional uses Simple File sharing when not joined to a domain. To take ownership of a folder: Right-click the folder you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears). Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab. In the Name list, click your user name, Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, click to select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box. Click OK. The following message appears, where folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of: You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control? All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes. Click Yes. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents. You can do the same to individual files, but you must be logged on to the computer using an account that has administrative privileges. To take ownership of a file, follow these steps: Right-click the file you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears). Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab. In the Name list click Administrator, or click the Administrators group, and then click OK. The Administrator or Administrators group now owns the file. To change the permissions on the files and folders under this folder, continue to step 5. Click Add. In the Enter the object names to select (examples) list, type the user or group account to which you want to give access to the file. For example, Administrator. Click OK. In the Group or user names list, click the account that you want (for example, Administrator), and then click to select the check boxes of the permissions that you want to assign that user. For example, Full Control [Allow]. When you are finished assigning permissions, click OK.
