Access an XP data drive (no OS installed) using Vista Ultimate

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I have already taken ownership over what I was able to via the "Security" tab
and it does show that I am the current owner re the admin portion of the
drive, HOWEVER, physically...I am unable to view ANY directory or folders on
this drive. Vista only shows a drive letter and when I click on drive...says
"no access".

Windows Vista recognizes only that it is a drive...but will not allow me
physical access to it. This was only a slave (data drive) only. And some
folders did have password protection, however, like I said...I have already
changed ownership rights to the drive. I was the administrator of this
"data" drive in my previous system and have all passwords, etc...it is just
not allowing me to physically get into the drive to navigate around.

So, what I need is clarification that there IS a way to physically access my
SATA drive in my Vista system and if there are software settings I need to
change in the security tabs first what are they?

Will I need to put this drive back into a XP system? I would have to build
or buy one...as all of my systems are currently Vista systems. then what is
the best, most efficient way to get 200gb of data to my Vista system?
 
John said:
I have already taken ownership over what I was able to via the
"Security" tab and it does show that I am the current owner re the
admin portion of the drive, HOWEVER, physically...I am unable to
view ANY directory or folders on this drive. Vista only shows a
drive letter and when I click on drive...says "no access".

Windows Vista recognizes only that it is a drive...but will not
allow me physical access to it. This was only a slave (data drive)
only. And some folders did have password protection, however, like
I said...I have already changed ownership rights to the drive. I
was the administrator of this "data" drive in my previous system
and have all passwords, etc...it is just not allowing me to
physically get into the drive to navigate around.

So, what I need is clarification that there IS a way to physically
access my SATA drive in my Vista system and if there are software
settings I need to change in the security tabs first what are they?

Will I need to put this drive back into a XP system? I would have
to build or buy one...as all of my systems are currently Vista
systems. then what is the best, most efficient way to get 200gb of
data to my Vista system?
Click to expand...

When you took ownership - did you tke ownership of the folder and *all
sub-folders*?
Did you then go in and change the file/folder permissions to include your
current user *and* then propagate those changes to all sub-folders/files?

As for the most efficient way - given your current predicament - would have
been/may be network file copy.
 
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John C - Midwest, USA


Shenan Stanley said:
When you took ownership - did you tke ownership of the folder and *all
sub-folders*?
Did you then go in and change the file/folder permissions to include your
current user *and* then propagate those changes to all sub-folders/files?

As for the most efficient way - given your current predicament - would have
been/may be network file copy.
Click to expand...

My answer would be Yes and Yes...I did make sure to take ownership of all
folders and sub-folders. I also did propogate to current user.

I am still unable to access the drive physically in VISTA.
 
If the drive was a data drive only (ie not your sys drive, with data in the
user accounts) there is no 'take ownership' required.
Any data slave drive should be accessible on another pc when installed as a
slave.
How does Disk Management show this drive?
 
Yes, the drive is only a data/slave drive. I was able to access the original
Sys drive and pull all data off of that one with no problem. My new Vista
system shows this (SATA I) as (drive D: ACCESS DENIED) in "computer". I also
have a Raid 0 setup on this system (2 - 750gb fast SATAII drives shown as
only drive C: 1.5tb).

Are you suggesting I go into system setup and change the properties of this
particular drive to read as a slave in my system?? I thought this is done
automatically?? Let me know the proper way to do this as I don't want to get
any more frustrated by just trying it myself and failing. Thank you all for
your assistance with this!! John
 
No, I was asking how 'Disk Management' showed this drive - thats not the
same as Explorer/Computor
 
ok, I will check after work today and I will post. Thank you for clarifying.
 
Ok I checked and the drive is lettered (D:)
232.88 GB NTFS
Healthy (Active, Primary Partition).

Again, anytime I physically try to explore the drive it says "access denied".

What do you suggest is best way to turn this SATAI drive into a slave data
drive once again??

Thank you for your help!
 
Double click My Computor, select D, rt click for Properties, select Security
Tab & check permissions
 
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