Taking ownership of a drive
I just bought a Lenovo with Vista Business installed. To move data from my old computer into the new one I copied it to an external drive, then connected the drive to the new computer. Now I am being denied access to this drive.I have been able to win ownership of the drive folder by folder -- but only if there are no folders within these folders. But of course there are thousands of them.I am a civilian, with no technical expertise of operating systems. I have seen some explanations of taking ownership of folders, but even these are dizzyingly complex.Is there a reasonable solution to this issue?
October 17th, 2008 7:25pm

Hi,Start > Type command prompt > Right click it > run as administrator > takeown G:\ /rwhere G = the removable drive. I haven't tried taking ownership of an entire drive before but I suppose it should work. If it doesn't you can use the takeown G:\folder /r command and it take ownership of all the subfolders
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October 18th, 2008 5:52pm

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