When I ran into such issues, I found that using the "take ownership" patch
would allow me to access the files. For some reason, using this patch rather
than taking ownership via the properties option would work most of the time.
You may search Google for "take ownership" or use this sample link:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-
right-click-menu-in-vista/

Hope this does it for you. It certainly is frustrating when this happens.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
I have an NTFS-formatted drive I pulled from a dead XP system.  Using a
SATA/IDE to USB adapter, I'm trying to transfer data from it onto my current
Win7 system.  But I keep running into permission issues.  I can't so much as
open, much less copy/move any document I want to save (text, .doc or even
e-books in pdf format).  I've taken ownership of the folder, properties of
documents within reflect this, yet the following occurs when trying to open
files:

PDFs: "Could not open file" / "File not found"

Text: " Access to {Path/filename.txt} was denied

Word doc: "...user does not have access privileges"

When trying to copy any of these files, I get File Access Denied UAC prompt
stating I need permission.  I click continue, then pop-up again, this time
"you require permission from {%user%} to make changes to this 
file".   I am that user; it's my login with admin rights, the same one 
which took ownership of these files.

I can't figure out what I'm overlooking and would appreciate any
help/suggestions offered.

Ian Carmichael

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