I've searched through the board and found a few people with the same problem, but unfortunately all the solutions that worked for them to not work entirely for me. I had windows xp on my c:\, wanted to migrate to secondary HD f:\. Installed fine, but of course I can't access my stuff on c:\documents and settings\user because of file permissions. If I click on a folder (say, user), then the security tab, select my new user account on the f:\, it's fine. For that particular folder only. It does not work recursively. I have to go into user\my pictures, repeat the procedure, and then I can access \my pictures. Under the advanced/permissions tab, I made sure to check "inherit from parent the permission entries applied to child objects". It is confirmed above when I look at above in the Apply To field -- "This folder, subfolders, and files" Yet I still cannot access any subfolder without manually okaying it from the previous directory level. I can okay groups of folders/files at once, but My Documents is a heavily nested directory (720 folders!) so I'm looking for a less time-consuming way to get my files back. I've tried logging on as administrator in safe mode, that didn't work. Tried finding *.* in the folder and selecting all files to set permission, said access denied. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

Aha, I neglected to select the examples button. It was trying to give permission to User instead of MYCOMP\User. Thanks anyway :)