How to remove administrator protection on a hard drive

TomkoMK

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Hi.

A few months back the screen on my Toshiba Laptop failed. I got a new Fujitsu laptop and now I want to transfer the files from my Toshiba Laptop onto the Fujitsu one.

But when I take out the hard drive from the Toshiba one and put it in my USB box and connect it to the Fujitsu one I can't transfer the files. You see the Toshiba laptop came with Win 7 already installed, I bought it of Amazon. It had one account on it, an administrator one. It didn't have a password or anything.

So now I can't remove it or I just don't know how.

Can anyone help me, how to remove this administrator protection so I can transfer my files from one laptop to the other?

Thanks.
 
Solution
You'll first have to take ownership of the drive
Properties->security->advanced->owner
Then have your admin account take ownership. After that assign permissions as you see fit for it

Edit: Actually, maybe have Everyone take ownership instead, you could try that. But I know the above will get you access to everything on the drive.


Can't do it, doesn't allow me to edit anything. Any other ideas?
 
You'll first have to take ownership of the drive
Properties->security->advanced->owner
Then have your admin account take ownership. After that assign permissions as you see fit for it

Edit: Actually, maybe have Everyone take ownership instead, you could try that. But I know the above will get you access to everything on the drive.
 
Solution
On the user folders: Administrator and my own user account. It says when I go to security =>advance =>owner, SYSTEM and I can't change the owner. It tries and fails.

Any way to get around this. The files I need most are in those folders.
 
Sorry, haven't been here for a few days. When I was trying to figure out how to get access to my drive I had the problem of changing permissions, but as far as I remember I didn't having any problems changing ownership. Once I changed ownership to administrator I could change permissions without a problem. Are you still having problems?

I won't be able to run another try on my system for a few days, I'm a hard drive short and won't be able to setup a spare for testing until later. But if you are still having problems, once I get a new drive I'll go through that process and see if I missed telling you a step.