Solved: Problems with ownership of folders on external hard drive 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 | 
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