Security lockout of a harddrive

pauldsteve

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Oct 29, 2013
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I had a motherboard crash on my Windows 7 machine. I bought a new machine Windows 8 and I bought a Enclosure for the harddrive out of the old Windows 7 machine. I figure I can at least recover my files off of my old C:\ drive. Well I can see part of them on the drive but I cannot copy them or edit them because it says I do not have permission. There is no way to enter a login that I had on my old machine. So I would like to scrub the harddrive of all security without losing the files so I can copy them to my new machine. When I try to do this through properties it does not like it. I know there is way to enter in to the hard drive and set the securities to default or at least turn them off. I have seen it done. Can anybody tell me how?
 

pauls3743

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take ownership of the folders

go into the drive/folder properties -> security -> advanced -> Owner (tab) -> Edit... -> highlight the person/group you want ownership transferred to and Apply/OK.

You should now be able to go back to the security settings and change the permissions if you need to.