First off I am not sure if this will go in this forum or not, but the OS on the hard drive I am working on is XP Home so I thought it made sense. I am trying to recover information from a hard drive that has XP Home on it and was password protected by the previous owner (my sister in-law) she gave me the password that was used so I have it. But the computer, an HP, has a fried motherboard and will not boot. So I pulled the drive and attached to my Apricorn Drive Wire, then to my Vista Laptop and it sees it as an external drive so that I can view the contents of the drive. When I go to move it Vista tells me that I do not have correct permission to move it. I have already attempted to take ownership of the files through Vista, still won't allow me to move them. She has already purchased a new HP with Vista Home Prem. on it and would like her file from the old computer on the new one. Most of the people I deal with don't protect there home desktops she thought she needed to.

I searched already and couldn't find any really relevant information on this.

Thanks.

I have already attempted to take ownership of the files through Vista, still won't allow me to move them.

After that, you also need to give yourself permissions on the files. Done it ?

I didn't think of that. I will try when I get home. Thank you. :blushing

What a pain, but it worked. Thank You!!

Edited December 11, 200718 yr by Phoneguy

What a pain,but i figured it out.

Thank you for all your help!!