[itdiscuss] Vista and XP Issues

[Darin Rohatinsky]

Sure, my favorite solution for that is called 'take ownership'.  It
just modifies the registry and then when you right click a file, you
can become the owner and do whatever you want:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Let me know if that works.

On 8/11/09, blloyd at buskercom.com <blloyd at buskercom.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine has a WinXP machine that has died.  He has a new Vista
> computer.  We wanted to get the data off so we moved the old PC drive to
> the new PC.  So far so good.  Now when we attempt to access the data on
> the old drive, we are deigned access.  I attempted to change the
> permissions and even the "ownership", but to no avail.  Can anyone give
> me some idea of how to get past this problem?
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
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>
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> Bill Lloyd
> IT Manager
>
> Busker Communications
> 2567 Athens Hwy.
> Gainesville, GA  30507
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>
> blloyd at buskercom.com
>
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