New system

Hello everyone.
I purchased a new Motherboard. It was Sata and my old drives were IDE. I went out and bought a new Sata drive. I thought I had backed up everything I needed to anexternal but ... there are some things still on the IDE drives I would like. I purchased an adapter and the IDE drive is connected to the new MB but I am locked out. It says I do not have permissions.
Is there an easy fix for a tech challenged person like me? I know my passwords but haven't been asked for them. and I don't remember locking anything anyway.
I have tried to 'share' the drive, etc.

 

Sorry. I forgot to mention I installed Windows 8 on the new MB.
I was running XP on the old.

 

Greetings and welcome to MajorGeeks! Hopefully someone here will help you with your issues. I'll give my best shot for you:

I'm going to guess that the new drive is on D:\

I'm not on windows 8 at the moment, but if you could go to the start screen. type in cmd, right click, select run as admin for cmd. (should be bottom of the screen when you right click cmd).

type in:

D: (press enter)
takeown /f * (press enter)

 

takeown /f *

aka

takeown (space) /f (space) * [press enter]

 

had a porb with C&P
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
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C:\Users\jack>D:

D:\>takeown /f *

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "$RECYCLE.BIN".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "AHCache".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "AUTOEXEC.BAT".

INFO: Access is denied. ( "boot.ini" )

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "Cache" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

INFO: Access is denied. ( "Config.Msi" )

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "CONFIG.SYS".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "CTX.DAT".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "Data" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "Documents and Settings" now owned by user "DESKT
OP\jack".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "e" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "IdleTrackingStream.txt".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP.msi".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "IO.SYS".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "MSDOS.SYS".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "msgr_on.bmp" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

INFO: Access is denied. ( "MSOCache" )

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "ntdetect.com".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "ntldr".

INFO: Access is denied. ( "pagefile.sys" )

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "PDOXUSRS.NET".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "Program Files".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "RECYCLER".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "skins" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "srch_1.gif" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "srch_img_1.gif" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack"
.

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "srch_loc_1.gif" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack"
.

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "srch_vid_1.gif" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack"
.

INFO: Access is denied. ( "System Volume Information" )

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "temp".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "tmo.2".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "user.js".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "visi" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "w" now owned by user "DESKTOP\jack".

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "WINDOWS".

D:\>