Vista takeown

[emma1222]

I pulled an internal storage drive that was password protected from my xp computer that nolonger works. I installed it into my computer running Vista. After manually changing the security settings to take ownership of each individual files (thousands) I was denied access to the entire drive. I rebooted in safe mode took ownership of the entire drive went to command prompt and entered, takeown /f . /r to take ownership of the contents of the drive. I can access all folders but I can not access files, i.e. music, pictures etc. I then enter the cacls command to try and change the permissions. The permissions say that I am the owner of the files and that I have full control so why can't I access the files?

I have valueable files that I would like to keep so any help on resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[siyavi]

You can always use Linux to access the files...

 

[pcaceit]

When you take ownership, you need to tick "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

on security tab click "advanced"> "Click Owner"> "click edit"> highlight Your Account or the Administrators under "change owner to" (administrators is best option as you are a member of that group)

>tick "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" at the bottom.> apply close the properties box

> in "advance settings for....etc" select permissions tab > click "change permissions" > tick "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" > apply > ok all property dialogues and log off and on again.