Does XP have to be on C drive?

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I have partitioned the drive into C and D and installed XP Pro on D. I do not have access to most of the files there. For example I can not import my favorites it says see administrator for permisson. I have no other accounts setup and I am the only one using the computer. After trying lots and lots of different things and giving administravtive permissions to everyone listed I am at my wits ends so I was wondering if the XP has to be installed on C by default? Can some one help me out please???
 
No, XP does not have to be on C:, just the boot files (BOOT.INI, NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and a few others). If your C drive is NTFS formatted and has Win2K or XP installed on it, you're running into a permissions issue. See Help and Support and search for "take ownership"

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421
 
Thanks Mr Knox but I have already tried taking ownership using those instructions as the drives are NTFS. I have even tried to share the drive and each folder...still no go. I still don't have access even when I logon using CAD (which as I understand it is the main overrriding administrators account

Thanks agai
Jilly
 
Are you having trouble accessing files on the C drive, or the D drive? If its the D drive, what OS is running on C?

Sharing the files/folders won't make any difference, since that's only applicable to access via a network.
 
Thanks again. The OS is on the D drive and the files I am trying to access are on D. And XP is running on C also.


(it took forever for these posts to show up on my end. I hope I didn't inconvenience you)
 
Jilly,

Unless you somehow managed to set Deny permissions on these files/folders, specifically for the Users group, then you shouldn't have any issues. If you did apply the Deny permissions setting, then it can be difficult to undo this. Its done by opening a command prompt window and entering the CACLS command.

CACLS /? will get you a list of the command line options. I don't have much experience with this utility, but I have used it to get out of a similar situation. It may take trying some different "formats" for the Path parameters, to get it right. Hopefully someone with more experience will be able to give you more guidance.
 
Well, if something was set to deny it had to be done during setup since I discovered this immediately after. I checked out the CACLS command but it is way beyond my abilities. I guess I will just reformat which won't involve too much since I don't have anything loaded except windows. Thanks for your help again I really appreciate it

Jilly
 
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