Oh, and with regard to messing up permissions, those are local to your machine. When you hand the drive back to your friend, his computer's permissions are used. Permissions are drive-specific but OS-native. :)
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood at gmail.com> wrote: > I ran into this just last night when I moved my external hard drive > with my iTunes library on it to another machine... > > Assuming you have admin rights on your machine, open Windows Explorer > and browse to My Computer. > Right-click the drive in question and choose Properties. > Click the Security tab. > Change the permissions for the account you log in as to Full Control. > > You should then be able to use the drive with no issue. > > Bill > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Maybe you need to log in as admin and change the file ownership from there >> if you don't have the rights with your regular login? >> >> Bodvar >> >> 2010/6/15 Rick Quatro <frameexpert at truevine.net> >> >>> >>> >>> Hello Framers, >>> >>> Excuse the off-topic post, but I need a little direction with copying files >>> from a hard drive. 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