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Removing All Need for Permissions to Read/Write to Drives?

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I remember doing it somehow or at least to some extent using the Registry Editor in Windows, though I can't remember exactly how, so does someone know how to do it? I'm using Windows 10 in the latest version.
 
for optical drives?
 
internet search of how to change permission will pop up a number of walk thru's.


But why? what reason?
 
DeathtoGnomes said:
internet search of how to change permission will pop up a number of walk thru's.


But why? what reason?
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I tried finding the tutorial I used to edit the registry editor as it fully removed the issue before, but I can't find it anywhere.
 
Doing that increases security breach
 
Just add "Everyone" to the permissions on the security tab for the root drive and give Everyone full control. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but that's how you do it. Nothing in the registry will remove permission requirements for a drive, it's built into ntfs. You could format the drive(losing all data on it) to something like exFAT too, which removes security permissions, but you won't be able to do that on a Windows boot drive.
 
eidairaman1 said:
Doing that increases security breach
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Ok... How do I do it though?
newtekie1 said:
Just add "Everyone" to the permissions on the security tab for the root drive and give Everyone full control. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but that's how you do it. Nothing in the registry will remove permission requirements for a drive, it's built into ntfs. You could format the drive(losing all data on it) to something like exFAT too, which removes security permissions, but you won't be able to do that on a Windows boot drive.
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Sadly just changing the permissions in the security tab doesn't seem to work, as it seems that even that cannot be done because of some lack of permissions.
 
avrona said:
Ok... How do I do it though?

Sadly just changing the permissions in the security tab doesn't seem to work, as it seems that even that cannot be done because of some lack of permissions.
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Then you need to take ownership of the drive first.
 
Arent you the one that told us backups are bad?

Didnt you already make this thread 8 months ago?

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Looks like you will have to try again.
 
Ah, dont be so moody, you tried to take us by storm with your "backups are bad" thread, and defended it with a holier than thou attitude.

It was clear then as is clear now that you do not understand this technology enough to even know why well known copied guides are failing. Yet you offer no information as to what issues you are even experiencing.

Some in this thread already gave you links and attempted to ask these questions, which is probably more than I can say for myself. This community certainly isn't lacking in talent.

Just make sure you realize you will only get out of it what you put in. None of these responses are useless from what I see, they are just giving you the same in weight.
 
Solaris17 said:
Ah, dont be so moody, you tried to take us by storm with your "backups are bad" thread, and defended it with a holier than thou attitude.

It was clear then as is clear now that you do not understand this technology enough to even know why well known copied guides are failing. Yet you offer no information as to what issues you are even experiencing.

Some in this thread already gave you links and attempted to ask these questions, which is probably more than I can say for myself. This community certainly isn't lacking in talent.

Just make sure you realize you will only get out of it what you put in. None of these responses are useless from what I see, they are just giving you the same in weight.
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So because I have more controversial opinions and that a tutorial just doesn't work in my case that means that I somehow don't know technology? How on earth does that make sense? I don't know where on earth this all came from and I'm not sure how it's my fault the trick doesn't work. I tried it several times, and always it doesn't work as it says that access was denied to every single file.
 
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And unsurprisingly it didn't work again...
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That sucks, I hope you can fix the permissions and get access to your data. If not, I hope you have backups of the important stuff...
 
TBH, I dont this is the kind of information someone without much experience with windows security, permissions can really screw you over if you set one thing wrong. I know what OP wants and he is not entirely forthcoming with what he wants to do exactly, so I will refrain from passing along how to do it.

I hope others will take the same approach to this thread.
 
So now people are just upfront refusing to actually answer? Why? What's the big deal? Can someone please just tell me how to do it so I can actually write stuff to my own drives?
 
avrona said:
Anything that doesn't involve reinstalling Windows?
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Honestly right now this is your best bet because it is clear as day your Windows install is borked in several ways. Between BSODs and the no backup topic earlier you've clearly created your own problem and are now failing to solve it.

Luckily you've backed up your data. Right? ;)

Its time to be humble and start learning. You will find that with such an attitude, these topics turn into very useful places to be and people are ready to help. For now though, start with a clean slate. I'm not even kidding. Format everything and clean install the OS. Then after a clean install, start using best practices instead of the 'Windows XP era' OS management that brought you here in the first place...
 
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