Hi All, Hoping you maybe able to provide a little help.
My old XP PC finally crashed out this week, or at least the processor did. Well I had it for five years and it had been running continously with the odd stop for maintenance. Rather than look around for a cheap processor I thought I treat myself to a new system and as my old HDD was good I put that in too, as I couldn't backup any files on the old PC.
My new system runs with Vista as the OS and here my problems began. Vista won't let me access any of the word or excel files on the old drive as the admin and user accounts don't have matching security settings.
Here's what I've tried to do about it:
1. switched off the UAC in a variety of different ways - makes no difference, so switched on again.
2. Tried to change the security settings of each folder, e.g. took ownership of each folder and changed the permissions level to full control - that only allowed me to copy the folder but not the contents - even sub folders and files were supposed to change with that.
3. Tried to move and copy folders - no joy
It seems that the only answer is to change the security settings on each file individually - which does work, but is long and laborious and I've got hundreds.
I was using MS office 2003, this pc came with office 2008, but I don't think that caused a problem, I'm sure it is Vista's security system that is my problem, my document files had no security settings before and operated on any XP system that I used.
Any help would be appreciated
