How to remove administrator protection on a hard drive

[TomkoMK]

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.

 

[TomkoMK]

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.

Right click on hard disk or partition>select properties>security>users(ur usernamE) >Edit > Allow on all the users ...

Can't do it, doesn't allow me to edit anything. Any other ideas?

 

[ien2222]

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.

 

[TomkoMK]

^^^^

THIS WORKED. THANKS A LOT.

EDIT: Still can't get access to the user files, folders like My documents and such. It just says access denied.

 

[TomkoMK]

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.

 

[ien2222]

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.