Ownership of a entire drive.

[Ramza394]

Ok guys and gals I'm helping out my wife's friend who has a Dell Dimension 4700 with Windows Xp. So her motherboard fried and wanted me to transfer her files over to a new backup hard drive. So I took the hard drive out and hooked it up to my computer running Windows 7. I can see the files and everything just fine but when I click on a folder I get the "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" Click continue to permanently get access to this folder. So I click continue and it wants me to go to a security tab and change the owership from Unable to display current owner to Admin.

The problem I'm running into is that it wants me to do that for every folder and file. Is their a way that I can do a blanket ownership over the whole drive, or is their a way to transfer the files without having to take ownership of the drive so my friend can just copy and paste the files with no problems.

Thanks for any help.

 

[mcnumpty23]

this will do it for you

you cant take ownership of the whole drive by right clicking it--but when you double click the drive and it opens you can select all the folders and take ownership of all of them--this may take a while if theres a lot of files in the folders

or you can just do the ones you want to do it faster--ie my pictures or my documents etc

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

 

[knurpsl]

this will do it for you

you cant take ownership of the whole drive by right clicking it--but when you double click the drive and it opens you can select all the folders and take ownership of all of them--this may take a while if theres a lot of files in the folders

or you can just do the ones you want to do it faster--ie my pictures or my documents etc

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

comment on the registry hack:

it only works on english systems. reason is that the ".../d y ..." switch only works on an english os.
e.g. on my german windows 7, the switch s`gotta be ".../d j ..." to answer the question in german (Ja).
a little sidenote for a windows developer i would like to spank:
when i call the help for the command, it is in english and tells me the switches are y and n ....