Yes I tried those settings, and yes I would love to by a new harddrive but I
plan on buying a new PC for Christmas so I am trying keep this one working
until then, hopefully the next one will have two 500g hard drives.

Any way I have managed to solve the problem by using Xcacls.vbs in the
command prompt. It did not manage to do all the files but 95% of them. The
command I used was :

E:\cscript.exe xcacls.vbs windowsvista /e /g administrators:f /s /t /q

Found the solution at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825751

Thank goodness because that was really annoying me for months. Thanks for
your suggestions, just have to work out why My Documents are showing up three
times on this drive all showing the same files, like a ghost. Add a directory
of file and it shows up on E:\Users\Username\Documents,
E:\Users\Username\Documents, (Hidden) E:\Documents and Settings\Username\My
Documents (Hidden)!!!!

"Malke" wrote:

> Jarogo wrote:
>
> > I would love to be able to do this but I do not have enough hard disk
> > space to back up my music, video and document files.
>
> How sad. Hard drives are cheap. You can get an external hard drive for $100,
> too. If that doesn't work for you, then review how you're taking ownership
> because I think you're doing it incorrectly. You need to look on the
> Advanced tab and have permissions be set on the child files/folders that
> come from the parent folders. Then you only need to set permissions on a
> top-level folder.
>
> Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>
> Malke
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