[Lord Nikon]

I'm not sure where exactly to begin on this so i'll start from where my problems all started, forgive me if it drones on a bit.

I have a 1tb toshiba hard drive that up until a week ago worked perfectly fine, i use this as a "gig" hard drive (for doing discos/karokes) so consequently has a lot of music i'd rather not lose. i bought a ps3 and decided to plug this hard drive into it to play my music through it. i then converted the hard drive from fat32 to ntfs so i could handle bigger files for backing up disc images. after realising that the ps3 could not handle ntfs i proceeded to attempt a conversion back to fat32. Partition magic decided to crash on me while converting partition to logical from primary, thus making the data on it very hard to retrieve. but i managed to get my hands on a seagate 1tb hard drive and managed to backup all the data, with just a few folders being corrupt. the problem is that on the folders in the new seagate drive, i cannot copy anything to them or delete anything from them. after persuing this matter with google i found microsofts article on taking ownership of a file/folder. but this has not seemed to work as i cannot select what permissions users and groups have over the folders. when i go to the properties of one of the effected folders (only certain folders have this problem, although it is the majority) and into the security tab, select advanced and goto effective permissions. I type in the administrator and it brings up what permissions i have as administrator (i'm in safe mode w/ networking on the administrator account), it shows that i don't have permission to take ownership for some reason. I hope you can follow all this and would be happy to explain anything further. oh, and i'm on an xp machine with sp3

would greatly appreciate any help with this

[Lord Nikon]

to anyone who is still trying to work this one out...

i have managed to take ownership of the files/folders in question. not sure how it worked but i have just purchased a new computer which has vista on it, upon trying to take ownership with vista instead of xp it worked instantly, not sure why it wouldn't work in xp though