After 3 days of formatting and formatting and formatting my hdd, and now I have finally got my VISTA backup. Anyway, I am desperate for help on taking ownership of a partition.
Please allow me to explain my situation; I searched and found something similar but I'm looking for a definite solution before I attempt to do anymore fixing. DOn't want to get back into the formatting nightmare.
I used VISTA32bit on drive C: in HDD1 with 2 partitions. HDD2 has 2 more partitions and one of them (E: ) is only accessable to the VISTA admin in C:. HDD2 also has a XP OS in the other partition. XP cannot access partition E:.
The life of my HDD1 is coming to an end as it crashes my computer all the time and it detects a lot of hardware damage within the disk.
So I got an old HDD (HDD3) and installed a VISTA32bit on it with a few trys (it also said something is wrong with this HDD3 :sa
But I finally formatted it the slow way instead of using the quick format and everything looks fine up to now. The problem is, I cannot access drive E: anymore since its ownership and permission were given to C:'s admin.
What do I have to do to get permission back on the entire drive (not just folders and files within) for VISTA in HDD3?
I tried this, Change the permissions and take ownership of your files and folders | Windows Vista for Beginners , exactly as it said and it didn't help. The drive still shows Access Denied (E: ) at my computer. I cannot even view the folders within the drive.
Hopefully someone tried this and worked it out and willing to share with me the solution. I really need to get access to those files pretty soon.
Thanks
Please allow me to explain my situation; I searched and found something similar but I'm looking for a definite solution before I attempt to do anymore fixing. DOn't want to get back into the formatting nightmare.
I used VISTA32bit on drive C: in HDD1 with 2 partitions. HDD2 has 2 more partitions and one of them (E: ) is only accessable to the VISTA admin in C:. HDD2 also has a XP OS in the other partition. XP cannot access partition E:.
The life of my HDD1 is coming to an end as it crashes my computer all the time and it detects a lot of hardware damage within the disk.
So I got an old HDD (HDD3) and installed a VISTA32bit on it with a few trys (it also said something is wrong with this HDD3 :sa
But I finally formatted it the slow way instead of using the quick format and everything looks fine up to now. The problem is, I cannot access drive E: anymore since its ownership and permission were given to C:'s admin.What do I have to do to get permission back on the entire drive (not just folders and files within) for VISTA in HDD3?
I tried this, Change the permissions and take ownership of your files and folders | Windows Vista for Beginners , exactly as it said and it didn't help. The drive still shows Access Denied (E: ) at my computer. I cannot even view the folders within the drive.
Hopefully someone tried this and worked it out and willing to share with me the solution. I really need to get access to those files pretty soon.
Thanks
