Security settings tab on file/folder

[aspyr97alsq]

Is it possible to cause problems with you pc by changing security settings on your C primary drive?

 

[USAFRet]

Is it possible to cause problems with you pc by changing security settings on your C primary drive?

Absolutely.
If you enable or disable the wrong user group...it will no longer work.

What are you planning on doing and why?

 

[aspyr97alsq]

I was hoping to at least make myself the owner so I can copy EVERYTHING to my 4TB D drive. I have been having problems with being restricted from manipulating random files even know I am the admin. I wanted to give myself full absolute control so there are no problems with the copy paste

 

[USAFRet]

I was hoping to at least make myself the owner so I can copy EVERYTHING to my 4TB D drive. I have been having problems with being restricted from manipulating random files even know I am the admin

Define "everything".
And why?

Alternately, why not use one of the current cloning/imaging tools to do this?

 

[aspyr97alsq]

EVERYTHING from my C drive so I can copy and paste it back after I reinstall windows to go from insider preview to stable.

 

[USAFRet]

EVERYTHING from my C drive so I can copy and paste it back after I reinstall windows to go from insider preview to stable.

Macrium Reflect
Make an Image of the C drive, off to another drive.
Create a Macrium Rescue CD or USB.
Later, if you wish to recover that Image (of the entire C drive as it was), boot from that Rescue thing and do it.

Just a simple copy/paste will NOT do what you seek.

Now...if you're talking about your programs and applications...to paste back after a full reinstall...that will not work either.
You can't copy/paste applications like that.

 

[USAFRet]

There is no magic bullet to reapply all your programs, etc to a whole different OS installation.

 

[aspyr97alsq]

I know but I would like to get as close as possible to the magic bullet

 

[USAFRet]

I know but I would like to get as close as possible to the magic bullet

There is no 'close'.
Save your personal docs elsewhere, reinstall your applications.

 

[aspyr97alsq]

"Save your personal docs elsewhere" that is precisely why I want to get full control of my C drive.

 

[USAFRet]

"Save your personal docs elsewhere" that is precisely why I want to get full control of my C drive.

Where are these files that is preventing you from copy/paste to a different drive?
Not the folders/Libraries they live in, but rather the individual files.

For instance...if you select and copy your 'Documents' folder...that folder carries the NTFS permissions of your current user. You can copy it, but later access might be a pain.
The files within it it do not. You can copy/paste them freely, to wherever.

If you can't, then your system has other issues.


Also, this is why MS recommends NOT using the insider builds for your daily driver system.

 

[aspyr97alsq]

One last question could just simply making myself the owner of the entire drive can't mess things up can it?

 

[USAFRet]

One last question could just simply making myself the owner of the entire drive can't mess things up can it?

Completely unknown.
I know *I* wouldn't do it.