Admin file access limitations?

My user account in WinXP belongs to the Administrator Group. In preparing for the reformatting of a partition, folders were moved to another drive. Since my user account has numerous startups which cause slow restarts, I logged on as the Adminstrator to restore files and folders after reformatting the original partition. BUT, the Administrator account could not see major folders that had been moved to the other drive!??? I thought the Adminstrator was all powerful.?? After logging back in with my normal user account, all moved folders were, once again, visible. What a scare! thought I had somehow lost them. Why didn't the Adminstrator see them?

Chuck

 

Could be ownership.
I presume that the partitions are formatted NTFS?
Login as administrator and then right click on the master folder that these other folders are in. Choose Properties, then the Security tab.
Click on the "Advanced" button just above "Apply" and then click on the tab marked "Owner ".
Add the administrators group and any other users that need to see the folders to the list and select the option "Replace Owner on Sub Container and Objects ".

BTW: It is not a good idea to have just "Administrator" as the owner as recovery of those files can be difficult. I always add the Administrators group, so in the event of an account having a problem, I can add another user account to that group and get access.

Press Apply/OK and wait while the new "Ownership" is written to the files. You should then be able to see them.

Simon.