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External Hard Drive Encryption Issues

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Limp Gawd
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I just recently moved residences and I've been trying to get my external hard drive working. Windows detects everything fine and all the files are visible in the file browser. However, all of the files are being denied access by Windows, I can see them all there but cant open any of them. Pictures won't show previews and even .txt files are denied access. This has happened on two Windows XP computers and I've never had this problem before. Is it a drive setting? The enclosure is a Vantec Nexstar NST-360U2 external enclosure and the drive is a Seagate sATA 200gig. This hard drive has worked fine on multiple computers at home, but since I've moved Windows continues to deny access to my files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some of these files are critical to my college courses and I need to get to them.
 
You'll probably have to take ownership of them. You should be able to dig up how to do that fairly easily.

 
Can you clarify just how I can "take ownership?" I really need to have a working external hard drive by the end of the week.
 
Yes, I can.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421 said:
If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File Sharing. By default, Windows XP Professional uses Simple File sharing when it is not joined to a domain.
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To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
4. In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
5. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:
You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?

All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.
Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.
6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
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