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

[c2DDragon]

Look, download this : http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/ntfsaccess
Here is the virustotal so you can trust or not : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file...911625705b433dbf5f257ed88f04ba66ea7/detection
Launch it with admin privileges, select the folders you want, if this doesn't work, give up.
It's just a program giving you the rights on folders because it seems you don't manage to do it.
If this doesn't work, enable and use the superadmin account (at your own risks) : https://www.thewindowsclub.com/activate-windows-super-administrator-account

Oh and don't ignore this time and tell if it worked or not please. Thank you.

If this doesn't work the only remaining solution would be to install a VM (linux or windows 7) and add the physical drive into the VM, disconnect the drive from windows 10 and launch the VM with the drive you want to access installed in it, take ownership from there and THEN if this doesn't work I guess you can just give up.

Good luck.

 

[avrona]

Look, download this : http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/ntfsaccess
Here is the virustotal so you can trust or not : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file...911625705b433dbf5f257ed88f04ba66ea7/detection
Launch it with admin privileges, select the folders you want, if this doesn't work, give up.
It's just a program giving you the rights on folders because it seems you don't manage to do it.
If this doesn't work, enable and use the superadmin account (at your own risks) : https://www.thewindowsclub.com/activate-windows-super-administrator-account

Oh and don't ignore this time and tell if it worked or not please. Thank you.

If this doesn't work the only remaining solution would be to install a VM (linux or windows 7) and add the physical drive into the VM, disconnect the drive from windows 10 and launch the VM with the drive you want to access installed in it, take ownership from there and THEN if this doesn't work I guess you can just give up.

Good luck.

I downloaded and targeted a whole drive, and after it was done I was still having the same issue. Also I tried using the method in the article to change local policy, but the program needed to edit local policy refused to launch for me.

 

[c2DDragon]

secpol.msc ?
If you have enabled the superadmin you can just log off and log in the Administrator session.
Once you did type :
Net user administrator /active:yes
Just disconnect your session and log on the administrator session
Edit : It's either typing the command in an admin CMD prompt OR using secpol.msc.

 

[R-T-B]

What is drive F:\ exactly? A hdd/sdd partition? Make/model of drive?

 

[avrona]

What is drive F:\ exactly? A hdd/sdd partition? Make/model of drive?

It's an HDD, a Seagate ST31000524AS.

 

[R-T-B]

It's an HDD, a Seagate ST31000524AS.

The first thing I would do in this instance is check the drive health using something like HDD Sentinel free trial, or anything else capable of checking SMART data. Under these circumstances a possible scenario is the drive is failing and that's why you are getting permission denials.

 

[avrona]

The first thing I would do in this instance is check the drive health using something like HDD Sentinel free trial, or anything else capable of checking SMART data. Under these circumstances a possible scenario is the drive is failing and that's why you are getting permission denials.

Checked using CrystalDisk and the health is displaying as good.

 

[Athlonite]

If you're happy to use a bootable version of linux (Mint is pretty easy to use) then I'd be doing that then remove the files you want from those "Random" folders and store them on a different drive in a new folder. Then reboot into windows and format the HDD as somewhere somehow the permissions have become corrupt for that drive you can also do the above for any HDD that is giving you permission problems

 

[moproblems99]

My recommendation is:

• Access the files from a backup
• Boot a Live Linux distro and pull files to a directory you have access to
• Remove the drive and put it in another PC and take ownership.

Questions:

• Is the drive USB?
• Can you read files with an admin level cmd prompt?
• Is it only F or are there folders on other drives?
• Do you have backups of these files so you can ignore this and wipe F?

 

[notb]

Out of pure curiosity, and partly because installing Fedora is so slow, I went through 80+ posts. Lovely thread as usual by this OP.

@avrona
You can't properly describe what you see or are unwilling to do so.
So either you're really unskilled with computers and (unsurprisingly) ruined your installation or, as some already said, you're trying to get into someone else's data.
I'll assume good intentions.

There's a good chance you've messed that PC up - beyond a point where anything can be done.
Don't worry. You're learning OS administration and this will happen.
You've already got the right answer: reinstall Windows. It's a routine task. I don't understand why you're so against the idea.
Even if you somehow fix that particular access issue, there's a good chance something else will come up.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Since it's not C:, I don't think reinstalling Windows will help. I think the file system on F: is FUBAR so I would try running chkdsk on it. If chkdsk won't work, the drive probably needs to be formatted (whatever data was on it will be lost in the process).

 

[c2DDragon]

At this point, we don't know what OP is trying to get.
We don't even know if the drive folders are encrypted or not because we don't have any clue of the folders.
Making a dual boot with a linux distribution or putting the physical drive into a VM could show the folders are encrypted and OP could give up.
I don't even know if he/she did log in superadmin to try the take ownership moves.
Please OP give us screens or names of the folders so we can know what you REALLY want to access so somebody in here can tell you if it's just possible or not xD

 

[newtekie1]

Since it's not C:, I don't think reinstalling Windows will help. I think the file system on F: is FUBAR so I would try running chkdsk on it. If chkdsk won't work, the drive probably needs to be formatted (whatever data was on it will be lost in the process).

Assuming F is the only drive/folder affected. I've asked for a list of locations and he only gave F "as an example". We've asked for screenshots of the security tab for the folders and he's refused to provide them, just giving vague error messages. But, hell, something could have decided to FUBAR the file system on all his drives if he's having problems with multiple drives.

He's being purposely vague and withholding information for some reason.

 

[notb]

Since it's not C:, I don't think reinstalling Windows will help. I think the file system on F: is FUBAR so I would try running chkdsk on it. If chkdsk won't work, the drive probably needs to be formatted (whatever data was on it will be lost in the process).

If this is something he caused (and he said it's his drive) I see no reason why other files would not be affected. He just noticed this on a non-OS volume.
From this and earlier threads we know OP is very careless. Look at his posting history. It's a constant battle with all kinds of PC issues.

Some of us are too young and some just forgot, but that's how general PC experience looked 15-20 years ago. Most people were still learning how to use computers. Almost everyone was staying on admin account all the time. Most were removing programs (not uninstalling them), turning of PCs with the power switch, downloading cracked executables etc. PCs crashed all the time. "BSOD joke" was one of the most popular t-shirt theme. It was generally accepted.
My bet is OP still uses his PC like that. Seriously, read the thread topic. Once, twice, 10 times. Who the f... does that?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Since it's not C:, I don't think reinstalling Windows will help. I think the file system on F: is FUBAR so I would try running chkdsk on it.

That would not help, permissions are stored within the Windows Registry, not the file system. Running chkdsk is very unlikely to help. If the OP is unwilling to fresh install Windows(and if he believed in backups such would be a trivial effort. Still think backups are a bad idea @avrona?) then we can not be of any help to him as he has not posted screencaps to show us the problem areas and none of us are physically at the system in question to assist in troubleshooting.

As was mentioned earlier, either the OP is trying something shady and is unwilling to show us the problem or he's trolling us. Either way, this thread seems to have run it's course.

 

[Tatty_Two]

This was a painful read, @avrona it's no wonder members are getting frustrated you are going around in circles, you have been asked for screenshots of error messages and you have totally ignored them all, you were asked for step by step details of what you are trying to do, you have been given links and some very good advice but reading this you appear reluctant to fully cooperate. I appreciate some of what you have tried has not worked for you but the best of that advice at this late point in the life of this thread is to do a fresh install of Windows as it would appear that either you have played around too much and borked something or your system is compromised, either way this thread is as they say "flogging a dead horse" and to avoid any further torment it is closed.

I hope you can solve your problem but I fear unless you sort out a fresh installation of Window's you won't.