Access Denied

[Mooney]

So I installed the hard drive from my old computer in my new computer as a slave drive. I can access most of it just fine, but when I try to get to E:\Documents and Settings\Mooney it says "... is not accessible. Access is denied." I'm guessing that's because it was a password protected Administrator account on my last comp. Any ideas how I can access this dir?

 

I've tried using Sudowin, but it always says "Sudowin service is dead to you." Do I have to boot into safe mode to use Sudowin?

[ken_cinder]

That's extremely odd, I've moved drives into other machines that contain the system partition and had no problem accessing a USER folder, even an Admin one. Maybe theres a conflict in ID's? Trying running a CHKDSK on that drive and then accessing it.

[Robert]

Maybe he has full security turned on, like I do.

 

Mooney, right-click on the folder that's denied to you, choose Properties, click on Security.

 

Depends on the OS, if there is a checkbox for Allow Inheritable permissions, blah blah, tick it, click ok.

 

If there isn't, click on Add, type in Everyone, ok ok.

 

If the security tab is missing, make sure you are an Adminstrator.

If the security tab is all greyed out, you need to take ownership first. I'll expain that if the above stuff doesn't work.

[Kloplop321]

he is an administrator.

although, Administrator isn't the highest, SYSTEM is, but I can't find the link to the TuT that explains how to get in it.

[Reaper man]

So I installed the hard drive from my old computer in my new computer as a slave drive. I can access most of it just fine, but when I try to get to E:\Documents and Settings\Mooney it says "... is not accessible. Access is denied." I'm guessing that's because it was a password protected Administrator account on my last comp. Any ideas how I can access this dir?

 

I've tried using Sudowin, but it always says "Sudowin service is dead to you." Do I have to boot into safe mode to use Sudowin?

 

change the file system to FAT32 ;p

[Mooney]

Bump.

 

I ran chkdsk, defragged, and did a virus scan with AVG just to make sure, but I still can't access that one folder. Any other ideas (No, I will not format it) are welcome...

[Reaper man]

my only guess it that it's NTFS formatted and it's "owned" by an account no longer on the system. Like I said, change the file system to FAT32 and it should be fine. :3

[hairytash]

You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has

administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Home

Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log on with an

account that has Administrative rights to have access to the Security tab.

 

If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File

Sharing. By default, Windows XP Professional uses Simple File sharing when it

is not joined to a domain.

 

To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:

1.Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click

Properties.

2.Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one

appears).

3.Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

4.In the Name list, click your user name, or click 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, select the Replace owner on

subcontainers and objects check box.

5.Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:

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.

Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership

of.

6.Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you

want for the folder and its contents.

[ben2dx]

thanks for info ive been having same problem