Ownership, permissions and now access denied

I have a WD elite hard drive that was set up on my old computer. I had changed ownership on the drive and used the Smartware to do backups. I'm pretty sure that I deleted some of the other owners when I was there too. I have a new computer and was able to change ownership back to me and can access 80% of my folders. When I try to change to full control in the ownership tab of the properties of my external drive. It will change ownership of everything except my pictures folder. I know its there, because I get an access denied pop up when I try to change permissions on the drive. I have disabled the VCD of the smartware and I am stuck now.

I'm hoping I haven't lost these.

Thanks in advance.

N://pictures doesn't show up in windows explorer. I know it is there, because when I tried to change ownership of the whole drive, it said access denied for this location along with a few others.

Here are a few, let me know if you need more. Thanks for trying to help me out!

thanks for helping me out through this! Assuming (I know, I know) you didn't need the screenshot for owner. I added that permission BTW, based on some another forums thread. I may have deleted some of the ownerships as well when I moved this drive the first time. Again, Much Thanks!

lehnerus2000 said:

If you have a spare HDD (with enough space) you could:

1. Try copying the files using a Live Linux CD/DVD/USB (e.g. Ubuntu)
2. Try to reformat the problem drive

I have the space to copy the whole drive, but am not familiar with linux/ubuntu. Is there a link that can be offered to learn? Will booting into linux/ubuntu show files that windows is hiding?