I have a SSD that used to be in my desktop before the machine died (power supply or motherboard issue most likely). Now I have a USB-SATA converter thing, which recognized the drive on my laptop (Windows 11 Pro). This is a NTFS type of filesystem btw, from a Windows 7 x64 computer.
I copied all the important stuff except the music folder. For some reason, it requires admin privileges and gives me “access denied” a lot, even for sub-contents. The only way I found is to manually set the owner as “Administrators” on every folder, subfolder, and file. Yes, the files too. Because for some reason, when I check the box to propagate these new ownership things to all sub-contents, it doesn’t work (gives access denied error on each folder and file that it tries).
Is there any way around this? It is extremely tedious because the properties dialogue is very involved, need to go to advanced, and I can’t even pick “Administrators” from a list, I have to type it in to discover the name of the owner. Then after the owner is set, I have to exit and come back to that dialogue to add the permission entries (I have to manually type “Administrators” again), then set it to full control, then apply. Only then will the file actually copy somewhere when I try. That is 2 major manual edits for every single file and folder…
I tried xcopy in the command prompt, same issue halts it (access denied). And I ran command prompt and file explorers with admin privileges. I don’t know what else to try.
Edit: The real problem here is not windows ownership/permissions on an NTFS drive. The real problem is the manually changing it, by setting “Administrators” twice for every file and folder. I dont understand why the checkbox for propagating ownership/permissions to all subcontents is failing. I am able to set them manually, but not in some automated process? That doesn’t make sense.
