New comptuer, old hard drive, ownership issues

[Clownbo]

My old computer motherboard died.  Bought a new desktop and pulled out old hard drive and made it into an external.  I'm only able to view my files on the old hard drive by selecting each one individually and taking ownership.  Is there a way to take ownership of the entire drive without having to select each and every file?  They are not password protected.  I have hundreds of pictures and music files.  I'm running Vista Home Premium.  I appreciate everyones help.  Thanks a lot. 

[Broni]

Try booting into Safe Mode, right click on the Drive, click Properties, 
then look in Security and take ownership as well as Add your user name 
ot the permissions giving yourself full control.  Similar to the method 
mentioned here:
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;823306

[Clownbo]

Thanks for your quick reply.  I've taken ownership of the drive and all the individual folders but . . . By taking full control of the folders I'm able to view their contents but I still can't access the files within.   To access my files I have to go through the entire process for each and every mp3 jpg etc.   

[Broni]

You may try this workaround: http://forums.techguy.org/tech-tips-tricks/586439-vista-take-ownership-context-menu.html

[Clownbo]

It worked.  Thank a lot for your help.  I appreciate you'all doing this.

[Broni]

Cool