[githanis]

Hello guys,

Im new to this forum, i read a lot of posts about the problem i have but cant figure to get the problem solved.

Last week my Hp pavillion DV2000 laptop crashed runnin on windows XP.
I removed the Harddrive from the laptop.

I've now bought a new laptop DELL XPS M1330 running on windows VISTA.

I wanted to move my old files to my new laptop so i bought a HDD docking station.

I can access my old harddisk but unfortunately not transfer anythhing to my new laptop. I continously get access denied messages.

Ive already tried changing the security settings of the old harddisk, the setting changes but im still not able to transfer my personal files to my new harddisk. I even cannot open for eg. a word document which is on my old harddisk, all i get is access denied.

tried it on another laptop now but i still get access denied, i dont have the administrator rights it says, but even if i change that in the security settings i still do not get the access to transfer the files to any other computer.

on my previous computer ricky84 was registered as the administrator

on the new pc rocky is registered as the administrator. i read on google that you can change that on prompt dos using:

takeown /F /r /d y
icacls /grand administrators:F /t

somehow it continues to say access denied.

is there any fault in the above propmt or is there any other way i can become the owner of the files on my old disk other then from the security tab?:sigh:

all comments are appreciated.

Thx