Please help; reapplying permissions to a hard drive( long post) 1

[enigma99]

I just did a hardware upgrade on my machine and now I'm having some security issues with one of my hard drives.

I have two physical drives; 1 physical drives contains two partitions... 1 for the os (4gb) and the other for just junk(6gb). On the second physical drive I only have one partition for my data (10gb). I had win2k pro installed but I decided after I upgrade my new hardware I could go to xp. So here is what I did; I moved everything that I needed to backup to my second physical drive(data). I then went ahead and reformatted the "c" partition and installed xp. I got XP running but now I can't access my "data" drive. It tells me "access denied". I know it works going from a win2k install to a fresh win2k install because I've done it before. I used to be able to right-click on drive and go to the security tab but XP DOESNT HAVE A SECURITY TAB!!!


DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE TO REAPPLY THE SECURITY SETTINGS TO A H/D?? I know the fix but I don't know how to get there.
=(

I appreciate the help.
Thanks.

 

[linney]

Disable Simple File Sharing which is set as default in XP. This should bring up the Security tab for you.

HOW TO: Disable Simplified Sharing and Password-Protect a Shared Folder in Windows XP (Q307874)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/8/74.asp

 

[enigma99]

LINNEY!!!!
YOU ROCK!!!
That did it; I appreciate you helping me out on that one...I was about to go crazy!!!!

That's why I love this site so much; you people who actually know stuff...lol

Thanks again.