Opening a write protected file?

Question

I combined two computers essentials. One being the two hard drives making one a master and one a slave. Well some of my files on the slave hard drive wont open. The pop up says "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges."

How can I change the setting to open them?

I tried going to properties and changing some settings but that didn't help any.

Answer 1

Just log in as the user that created the files.

Answer 2

Okay, I'm not sure if you're confused but the problem doesn't seem to be write protection.

If a file is write-protected, you can open it, run around in it, make changes in it (usually), BUT you can't save any changes you make.

The problem you have here is one of user rights.  If you can log into the system as an administrator, you should be able to take ownership of all the files on the slave drive and then assign share and security permissions.  Easier is if it's asking for a username and password; if so just put in a username and password that existed on the slave when it was a master.

Otherwise, the easiest way will be to set that slave drive up as a master again, boot from it and get at the files that way.  Then give share and security permissions on those files to a user on the drive you are currently using as Master.