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Arthur

Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.
 
Arthur said:
Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.

Log in as Administrator and take ownership of the files.
 
Arthur,

"Take Ownership" as suggested earlier.

Additional tip:
For XP Home, boot into safe mode and login as Administrator. Take Ownership
of files/folders.

Or, use the calcs.exe command line and reset the permissions. The following
comand line paramenter will change the ACLs of all files and directories on
drive C to allow full control for the Administrators local group:

"cacls c:\ /t /e /g Administrators:f"

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Hi.
I did a clean insttall of XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive.
The previous hard drive had 'XP Home'.
But now some files and folders are visible but locked/inaccessible
to me.
I have some video files of the baby among those files.
How do I get access to them?

Thanks for your help.

Arthur.
 
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