Admin rights on slave HDD

Punk

Punk

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Hey there,

I recently changed my desktop computer, and I put the HDD form my older computer to the new one on an empty slot. Everything worked fine except that I apparently don't have the admin rights to modify anything created when I was on the other computer...

I went from XP to win7.

Any help would be appreciated :)
 
Is the entire drive locked out or just your old document folders? If you right click the folder and go to security tab, you should be able to change permissions and ownership provided you're logged in on an admin account.

Though if we were to do it my way, I would just copy everything to a FAT32 drive/partition and then reformat. FAT32 doesn't support any permissions or access control, so that would effectively reset the permissions.
 
Well everything that was created on the older computer is now read only and I can't change it on the new computer...
If I create something on the new computer it's fine, I have every rights.
 
Just a thought. Try creating another profile with admin rights. reboot then log in with new profile and try it.
 
You need to take ownership of those folders/files. Google how to take ownership in windows 7. I would give you the link but on my phone at the moment.
 
I was gonna say, it should have worked. XP will do the same thing when you stick in a hard drive with with data on it that wasn't done on your account. You always have to take ownership of files/folders to gain access to them.
 
Actually no i didn't work...

I don't know what's wrong, I've done exactly what they've said...
 
It's still telling me I need to have the admin rights to modify the files...
 
You might have to take over a few folders manually, by themselves, rather than doing the whole drive at once.

I still don't think windows would let you gain root access to the windows folder ;)
 
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