[merrim19]

Vista secury conflict with sharing notebook harddrive

First post on here, hope it goes well

I finally replaced my notebook because it couldn't keep a charge, and replaced it with a tower that runs Vista. My notebook ran XP. I thought to remove the notebook hard drive and wire it directly to my tower to transfer over my files. Actually this worked better than expected, until I got to the 'My Documents' folder. Vista continues to say I don't have permission to access any of these files.

My notebook did not have a sign on screen to boot up, and did not have anything password protected. I'm also signed in on the tower with full admin rights. I can't seem to get the correct sequence of security options right. I guess my question is leading to, is there something in Vista that would prohibit me from doing this is the first place or is there a master security option buried somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks -Joe

[lunarlander]

You will have to take control of take ownership of the folder.

Right click on the folder and choose Properties.
Then click on the Security tab
Choose Edit.
Choose Adminitrators in the top list box.
Choose Full Control and checkmark Allow in the Bottom list box.

OR to take Ownership
In the Security Tab, click Advanced
Click the Owner tab
Click the Edit button
Change Owner to Administrators
Checkmark - Replace owners on subcontainers.
Click Apply