Hard drive addition...

[TheHaze]

I built a new pc a month or so ago and I just added my old hard drive. It's set as slave and my new one is the master but it says I don't have permission to access any of my music or files or anything. Any way to access that stuff from this pc? Godamnit.

[SpaceGhost]

Did you have your user account on the old windows drive password protected?

[Putty]

It's because you have windows installed on the old drive. Most likely you are using a diff profile name on the newly installed Windows on the new drive, so that profile does not have access to the profile on the old drive. I suggest opening the PC, disconnect the new drive, make the old drive master, boot the PC. Partition the old drive to make a D:\, move all the crap you want to that partition. Make it slave again, plug in new drive, boot to that Windows, now you should have a C: D: E:, most likely all the crap you moved to the newly created partition will be on E:. Move it to C: and it's all on the new drive. Sounds complicated maybe, but easy to do. Or just get a copy of ERD Commander and move the shet!

[SpaceGhost]

It's because you have windows installed on the old drive. Most likely you are using a diff profile name on the newly installed Windows on the new drive, so that profile does not have access to the profile on the old drive. I suggest opening the PC, disconnect the new drive, make the old drive master, boot the PC. Partition the old drive to make a D:\, move all the crap you want to that partition. Make it slave again, plug in new drive, boot to that Windows, now you should have a C: D: E:, most likely all the crap you moved to the newly created partition will be on E:. Move it to C: and it's all on the new drive. Sounds complicated maybe, but easy to do. Or just get a copy of ERD Commander and move the shet!

 

That does not matter unless the profile on the old drive is password protected.

[Putty]

That does not matter unless the profile on the old drive is password protected.

 

What does not matter? It must be password protected, if it's telling him he has no access to it. If no password, any account could access the profile.

[SpaceGhost]

It must be password protected, if it's telling him he has no access to it. If no password, any account could access the profile.

 

Yes I was just saying that the name does not have to "match a profile" as you put it.

[HAOLE]

Dont listen to these guys they are telling you wrong....

 

go to search

 

Type in regedit

 

Then delete all entires int the registry editor.

 

That will fix it every time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J/K

[Putty]

What a nice guy you are....LOL

[Casper]

start > run > type "cmd" > in the shell, type "format d:"

 

works like a charm

 

just kidding

 

download bart pe from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder

 

burn the cd then boot to the newly created cd. you'll be able to navigate and copy all the files you want.

[BIGGU]

try this ive had it happen to me and this is how i corrected it :

 

Ensure you are logged on to the computer as a local administrator to perform this task.

 

click "my compuer" and right click your drive and select "properties"

Select the "Security" tab and click the "Advanced" button.

Click the "Owner" tab

In the list you should see your administrator account, select it and tick the box that says "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

click Ok and this should take a while to complete.

When done go to the permissions tab and "add" yourself to the list with appropriate permissions.

Tick the box that says "Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions" and click ok

if any boxes come up that I have not menitoned here, just read them carefully and the answer is usually logical.

 

This should give you back access to these folders

[Putty]

 

download bart pe from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder

 

 

 

Good app...Forget what I said.

[Casper]

Good app...Forget what I said.

Bart PE rocks. We use it here at work with the Novell NetWare plugin to save data of dying disks.

[Draco-REX]

try this ive had it happen to me and this is how i corrected it :

 

Ensure you are logged on to the computer as a local administrator to perform this task.

 

click "my compuer" and right click your drive and select "properties"

Select the "Security" tab and click the "Advanced" button.

Click the "Owner" tab

In the list you should see your administrator account, select it and tick the box that says "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

click Ok and this should take a while to complete.

When done go to the permissions tab and "add" yourself to the list with appropriate permissions.

Tick the box that says "Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions" and click ok

if any boxes come up that I have not menitoned here, just read them carefully and the answer is usually logical.

 

This should give you back access to these folders

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!

 

If you don't have these options, do this in Safe Mode and log in as Administrator.

[TheHaze]

try this ive had it happen to me and this is how i corrected it :

 

Ensure you are logged on to the computer as a local administrator to perform this task.

 

click "my compuer" and right click your drive and select "properties"

Select the "Security" tab and click the "Advanced" button.

Click the "Owner" tab

In the list you should see your administrator account, select it and tick the box that says "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

click Ok and this should take a while to complete.

When done go to the permissions tab and "add" yourself to the list with appropriate permissions.

Tick the box that says "Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions" and click ok

if any boxes come up that I have not menitoned here, just read them carefully and the answer is usually logical.

 

This should give you back access to these folders

I had already done this before but there's still a problem. By doing that it gives me access to go into any of the old folders but none of the old files work. I can go back and change ownership of individual files and that works fine but I don't want to do that for thousands of files.

[BIGGU]

you should be able to select them all and then change all permissions at the same time.