My cousin messed up her windows in her comp so i am going to have to restore it but i want to try to move some of her files on my comp b4 hand. I connected it as a slave drive and i can see the files but when i try to move the files it says i do not have permissions to do this. I have already gone to the securities tab and made me owner but still nothing. I am on Vista Ultimate can someone please help, i dont want her to lose all her documents

Hi welcome to the forum Did you try right clicking the files and selecting take ownership? Also you are you logged on as administrator?

yeah I did both of those things, what it allowed me to do is go into the folders but it wont let me move the actual files

What duz it say exactly when you go to copy them?

you need permission to peform this action and then gives me a try again button

Can you try this

1. Click the Window circle
2. Click All Programs: Accessories
3. Right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator"
4. Elevate
5. Run this command: icacls d:\ /grant BUILTIN\UsersOI)(CI)(M)

Did that work?

i got it work i had to manually add me as a user in the securities but now the prob is that its making me do this for every file personally ... to figure out how to do a mass change lol