Question : Changing Permissions For Partioned Drive

I partioned a laptop hard drive a few months ago with Windows XP.  The c:\ drive has permissions set and the d:\ drive should not. At some point, I must have set Read Only permissions on the partioned drive (d:\) also.  I now have a user who receives Access Denied errors for his own data that resides on the d:\ drive.  I have tried resetting the permissions from the root of d:\ by unselecting the Read Only" box and selecting Apply.  I immediately receive unable to change permission errors and I end up having to select Ignore or Ignore All and no permissions are changed.  I have Admin rights so I should be able to do this but can't figure out where.  Any ideas?

Answer : Changing Permissions For Partioned Drive

I agree with IT-Monkey-Dave

In the security tab there is a button named "Advanced Options". The dialogue box will have a tab which is named "Owner" which you need to click on.

Select your Admin account and also make sure you check the tick box that says "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

This should give you the rights you need to make the amendments for everything in that directory once processed.

You will need to be logged in with an account that has Admin privileges for this to work.

Failing this I would make a copy all of the data on your D:\ drive onto separate media or even your C:\ drive. I would then format the D:\ partition and amend the permissions ready to restore the data.

Hope this helps