Permissions on a Vista HDD

[Gezza]

Hi all

I installed a HDD with vista loaded onto it. It was in a previous box that I used for torrents and the mobo blew.

Its in a box with XP installed but I can access the user files on it. I dont have user permission. How do I dissable it. The security tab doesnt appear on it when I right click on it.

Windows XP pro if that helps

 

[Mal1ce]

Disable Simple File Sharing in XP (see here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874).

This will give you access to the security tab where you can take ownership of the folders and reset the security permissions.

 

[Gezza]

I have done that but its still not there.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

IIRC the security tab won't be visible if it's a FAT32 drive. It needs to be formatted as NTFS in order to make use of NTFS permissions.

So the first thing to check is if your drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS.

 

[Gezza]

Im sure its NTFS...It was used as the master drive for a vista box. but ill check

 

[Gezza]

it is NTFS

 

[TheRift]

Any luck?

Did a bit of google'ing and perhaps some of this might be relevant:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290403/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754
http://www.brothersoft.com/xcacls-gui-135003.html
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/

Perhaps some of it might work, but then again it might not.

 

[Gezza]

A friend took it home and fixed it for me. Thanks for all the help anyways.

 

[TheRift]

So no idea what the problem was then? The fix would be handy so we can learn what to look out for if we encounter such an issue ourselves.