NTFS Drives restricted

[gyromind]

I have two hard drives in my machine. Both of them have XP installed on them, and both are formatted to NTFS. When I try and access the "My Documents" folders on my slave drive, I get a permissions error.

"D:\Documents and Settings\Me is not accessible. -- 'Access is denied' "

I've tried sharing the drive, and I have admistrative access to both (though it doesn't prompt for a password). Does anyone know of a way around this?

Oh yeah, and I can't get into the operating system of the slave drive. It's been corrupted. So I can't boot with it.

 

[stash]

You need to take ownership of the files on the slave drive and then add an account from the other XP install to the permissions.

 

[gyromind]

I can't get into the OS of the slave drive. The OS is corrupted, and I can't boot from it. If I'm misunderstanding you, could you be so kind as to explain what you mean by take ownership? I can't even see the files much less change their attributes. Sorry, I'm kinda new at XP.

 

[stash]

You don't need to boot the slave drive. Boot into the working XP drive, and then right click on the drive letter for the slave and go to properties. Click on the security tab, then advanced. Click the owner tab and then highlight your account and click ok.

 

[gyromind]

Hmm. There is no "Security" tab. There is a sharing tab. This, however, does not have an andvanced button. I've shared the drive already. I'm using XP Home. Is it different in XP Pro?

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: gyromind
Hmm. There is no "Security" tab. There is a sharing tab. This, however, does not have an andvanced button. I've shared the drive already. I'm using XP Home. Is it different in XP Pro?

Yes it is different. You will need an XP Pro system to take ownership and get access to those files.

XP Home does not support advanced file security options such as this.

 

[McMadman]

Originally posted by: DaZ

Originally posted by: gyromind
Hmm. There is no "Security" tab. There is a sharing tab. This, however, does not have an andvanced button. I've shared the drive already. I'm using XP Home. Is it different in XP Pro?

Yes it is different. You will need an XP Pro system to take ownership and get access to those files.

XP Home does not support advanced file security options such as this.

Actually, according to this link all you have to do is reboot into safe mode and logon to an account with administrator rights and the security tab will show up. The link also has step by step instructions on how to take ownership.

 

[stash]

Yep, that's right. Just boot into safe mode, and you'll see the security tab.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: gyromind
Hmm. There is no "Security" tab. There is a sharing tab. This, however, does not have an andvanced button. I've shared the drive already. I'm using XP Home. Is it different in XP Pro?

Sharing the drive is for network access, it has nothing to do with accessing the drive locally (as your trying to do as your second drive). As the others have stated, you need to take ownership and you can then access the files.

Bill