Windows 10 Permanent Admin Access

[jacky4566]

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I'd just take ownership of the drive again: Take Ownership of a File or Folder

I've done that a couple times to fix similar problems when switching drives to different machines.

This. Sounds like windows doesn't have ownership of the drive as a whole.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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This. Sounds like windows doesn't have ownership of the drive as a whole.

You know what, I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I pulled all those storage drives out of my old PC and put them in my new one (plug & play with existing data, I did not reformat them or start fresh). So they were formatted and set up on a different PC. Maybe that is what is screwing with my permissions. My OS drive though is brand new with a fresh W10 install, but that isn't the one I'm having problems with.

[revelations]

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You know what, I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I pulled all those storage drives out of my old PC and put them in my new one (plug & play with existing data, I did not reformat them or start fresh). So they were formatted and set up on a different PC. Maybe that is what is screwing with my permissions. My OS drive though is brand new with a fresh W10 install, but that isn't the one I'm having problems with.

Thats not a brand new box then - it has old parts - thats why I asked for a back story earlier.

Definitely your source of problems but the solutions are as above - take ownership.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Thats not a brand new box then - it has old parts - thats why I asked for a back story.

Definitely your source of problems

Sorry if that was unclear.

I got a complete new PC (everything including the drive the OS is installed on is new, and it's a new copy of W10 Home 64bit). Then, I took my 4 storage-only HDD's from my old PC and popped them in.

Given that, which of the above solutions is best? Probably just to take ownership of the drive back?

[Seth1968]

[QUOTE=Mitsu3000gt;4670672]I found
this one another forum - would this be an even better solution?

No.

It has has nothing to do with your problem.

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Uh huh.

I already said to take ownership of the drive.

[The_Penguin]

So much cringe in this thread.
Seth is right. You took a drive from another system dropped it in, and the current user(s) don't have permissions.
Take ownership, set the permissions, and be done.

[Mitsu3000gt]

I've moved these drives before (some of them twice) and never had to do this - so this was a new issue for me.

Of the 5 drives I moved over:

3 Had the owner as "SYSTEM"
2 Had the owner as "Administrator"

I changed them all to Me (user) and I just did a quick test by trying to delete stuff, so I think it's probably OK. I also changed the Photoshop shortcut to always run as admin as a fail safe. Thanks for everyone's help - sorry if it was 'cringeworthy'...I've done this exact thing before and not encountered this issue so it was a new one for me.

[firebane]

Swapping drives from one OS to another cab have this effect and sometimes when swapping drives they go into a dynamic state and need a reformat.

Always good when swapping drives to reset permissions.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Nevermind - unfortunately it still asks for Admin approval for files I try to delete on the storage drives. I am the "owner" (changed from "SYSTEM"), didn't seem to make a difference. Two drives, identical ownership settings - one lets me delete, one doesn't. Tried setting owner to both myself and also "Administrators" and neither works.

My Photoshop problem is solved but it's probably just because I ran it as admin.

[Seth1968]

Ok I have to ask. Did you restart the computer after taking ownership?

Here's the procedure to take ownership of the whole drive (It's for W7, but W10 will be similar).


http://www.preyerplanning.com/take-o...-windows-7.pdf

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Ok I have to ask. Did you restart the computer after taking ownership?

Here's the procedure to take ownership of the whole drive (It's for W7, but W10 will be similar).


http://www.preyerplanning.com/take-o...-windows-7.pdf

Yes a restart was the first thing I did. I'm overclocking and playing with fan curves right now so the PC was restarted multiple times.

That PDF looks like what I did (since I can see that the owner was changed if I go back into Properties, so I assume it worked and I got no obvious errors), and I checked the box to include all files and sub-folders, but I can go through it again tonight just in case. The only difference is I don't have an "Owner" tab, but the options seem to be the same - probably just different for W10.

I think I've got it down to only the one drive misbehaving. If I try to delete something that was on the drive when I moved it over, I need to confirm Admin access. If I delete something that I moved over from another drive, it doesn't ask me. I think that drive is on it's way out (slows down to like 6 MB/s during long transfers) so I might just replace it anyway and my problem should disappear.

[Mitsu3000gt]

Nothing I do will remove the Admin requests on the one drive. Other ones seem OK. I just bought another 1TB SSD to replace it with so it shouldn't be an issue going forward.