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Old Harddrive is passworded, in an external box, can't get to file

Started by Crapulence , Sep 12 2007 03:04 AM

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 03:04 AM

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Hello!!! I'm at a bit of a loose end, not knowing much about what I'm doing so, please bare with me if i say weird things....
My computer exploded blah blah new one from insurance blah blah send old harddrive back.. BINGO,
Plug it into an external casing, but then realise that my area was passworded. Says I do not have permission to view the files. I know it can be done, as a friend (Mike if you want to know his name lol), mannaged to do it, only I didnt understand and Mikes gone away for a few months! Cheeky lad.
Anyway.

How do I tell the hard drive that I'm the owner of the files so that I can get into the darn folder, (Local disk - documents and settings - philippa (my name!)

Any help you can give would be appreciated a lot!
Thanks ladies and gents :blink: :whistling:

also... is there anyway i can permanently remove that password thing.

Edited by Crapulence, 12 September 2007 - 03:58 AM.

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 05:26 AM

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Hi Crapulence. Welcome to Geeks to Go!

How to take ownership of a folder

Note You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to the Security tab.
If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File Sharing. By default, Windows XP Professional uses Simple File sharing when it is not joined to a domain.
For additional information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307874 How to disable simplified sharing and set permissions on a shared folder in Windows XP


To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:
  • Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
  • Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
  • Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
  • In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
  • Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:

    You do not have permission to read the contents of directory <folder name>. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?.

    All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.[/code]
    Note <folder name> is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.

  • Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
How to take ownership of a file

Note You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has administrative credentials.

To take ownership of a file, follow these steps:
  • Right-click the file that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
  • Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
  • Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
  • In the Name list, click Administrator, or click the Administrators group, and then click OK.

    The administrator or the Administrators group now owns the file. To change the permissions on the files and folders under this folder, go to step 5.

  • Click Add.
  • In the Enter the object names to select (examples) list, type the user or group account that you want to give access to the file. For example, type Administrator.
  • Click OK.
  • In the Group or user names list, click the account that you want, and then select the check boxes of the permissions that you want to assign that user.
  • When you are finished assigning permissions, click OK.
That should do it :whistling:
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Posted 12 September 2007 - 06:55 AM

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Ok, that seemed to work, so i tried to re-access the hard drive, but it has come up with 2 messages,
first one - Cannot access, the parameters are incorrect
and now we have The semaphore time out period has expired.

oh dear :whistling:

and it seems to do a lot of working and whirring whever i try to right click and stops responding...
and also my computer sometimes wont even recognise its plugged in.
also explorer keeps crashing

Edited by Crapulence, 12 September 2007 - 09:50 AM.

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