Permissions issues? Old Partition

[Wolfie7873]

Had an existing installation of Vista on a hard disk. Decided I wanted to create a partition for the OS separate from my user files for restoration purposes. Created a small partition from the available space and installed Vista on that partition.

Now, of course, all of the files on my "user files" partition were owned by the account on the other OS install, and I'm having major permissions issues with the new account from the new OS install. Is there any direct way to "take over" the files on the other partition from the old account and solve the lingering permissions issues once and for all?

 

[linney]

See if these help?

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP (or Vista or Win 7)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us

Error Message: "Access Is Denied" When You Try to Open NTFS File System Folders

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q823306#appliesto

Add encrypted files to the list of possible reasons for Access Denied.

 

[BadBigBen]

Follow Linney's first link, and that should be the end of the problem...


Ben
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[Wolfie7873]

Meh, tried it - still didn't fix everything. Ended up backing up to an external, formatting and starting over. Perhaps not the elegant solution, but it works now.