Can't Access certain folders on HDD

[mintWAX]

I recently installed an SSD for boot. Everything worked fine at first. Then I tried to access the documents folder in my HDD from the SSD at which point a pop-up said "You don't currently have permission to access this folder." I could click continue to get rid of the pop-up (the account on the SSD is admin), but it took a lengthy amount of time to do nothing so I stopped it and tried again a couple of times.

I attempted to give myself permissions by going into the HDD's properties->security. My username was not listed, instead in administrator there was DESKTOP-EJF40SH\Administrator and users was DESKTOP-EJF40SH\Users. I just gave the user full control and tried again. It was unsuccessful so I restarted and booted to the HDD. When it tried to go to desktop, the screen was black at first, then I could see the icons (many of them had different or odd icons) the background remained black and I kept getting the pop-up again; "You don't currently have permission to access this folder." Restarted to try again and it just went to a blue screen stating that the computer needed a restart. Restarting again didn't do anything obviously.

Sorry for the long entry but I wanted to give as much detail as possible. Is there some way to fix this?

 

[Paul NZ]

Not all open. Even if you have admin access

 

[derekullo]

You need to take ownership of the file/folders.

This is a bit different than assigning permissions.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659

Explains it best

 

[derekullo]

When you resinstalled windows on the ssd it does not extract the users from the hard drive it just makes default windows accounts, not sure why it chose those names.

All your files are marked as owned by "mintWax"

But you are no longer logged in as him because he doesn't exist in this windows install.

You need to make a new account if you havent already and change ownership from the last user to the new one as the above link describes.

 

[derekullo]

The most proper way to do this would have been to start fresh with the ssd and hard drive.

And then installed the OS on the ssd and reinstalled all your applications to the hard drive.

 

[mintWAX]

The most proper way to do this would have been to start fresh with the ssd and hard drive.

And then installed the OS on the ssd and reinstalled all your applications to the hard drive.

Thank you for the information! I was able to access the folder using the steps in your first post. I will back up any important files and do this as well. Thanks for the help!