Hi,

You need to take ownership of the other files before you can change
permissions. Right click a folder and select permissions. From the security
tab you want to click advanced. From the Owner tab, click edit and change it
to your current user account. Make sure to check the box so that this
extends to all subcontainers. It will take a bit of time for this to run.
Then close the permissions dialog and reopen it, you should then be able to
alter any other user account access lists.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"chall3ng3r" <chall3ng3r@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hello,
>
> in my previous xp installations, i never reformated all drives. i just
> formated c: which actullay contains the os and all other programs i've
> installed on it. so, i kept safe my data all the time on other drives.
>
> all my drives are ntfs.
>
> in some previouse xp installs, i tried to apply permissions to invidual
> files & folders. later i reinstalled xp many times, and now switched to
> vista. now many of these files & folders are not accessable, and i get
> access
> denied error when i try to open the folder.
>
> can anyone tell me how i can RESET permissions to default on my all other
> drives (other than c? and also how i can unlock those locked files &
> folders.
>
> many thanks,
>
> // chall3ng3r //
>
>