How to TakeOwn ship of c drive through cmd prompt

[DancingElephants]

( Edited to be more clear.)


i am using plain windows 10. Using the cmd prompt. How do I TakeOwn of the C drive?

What exactly do I need to put into the cmd prompt?

There are results on google. But I'm not sure what to put in exactly because I can't find anyone that does it to a C drive.

 

[USAFRet]

2 Options:

1. Recover from your daily backup that exists off on a different drive. Not a "restore point".
or
2. A full wipe and reinstall

You've hosed it up too far to "fix".

 

[DancingElephants]

Well I did see this, i just dont know what to put in the folderpath thing, So if someone could tell me exactly what to type in that would be great. Please help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csF9QkNa49A

 

[USAFRet]

Well I did see this, i just dont know what to put in the folderpath thing, So if someone could tell me exactly what to type in that would be great. Please help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csF9QkNa49A

Wow, that was about an annoying video.
Created by a hyperactive chipmunk.

You've screwed the entire C drive. Ownership is not the same across all folders. Some are user, some are admin, some are by some internal system magic.
You can't recreate that.

Wipe and reinstall.

 

[DancingElephants]

how about a way to force windows 10 to create a restore point? That's all i'm really aiming for anyways.

 

[Peter Martin]

I think you’re beyond restore points if you don’t have any already

 

[USAFRet]

how about a way to force windows 10 to create a restore point? That's all i'm really aiming for anyways.

A Restore Point now would only be the state it is in now.
It's not a time machine.

Backups are what you do before the bad thing happens.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

There is some great advice on the other forum that you posed this exact question too.

 

[Peter Martin]

it's not that you can't run the command via powershell or something , but, it won't be like a factory standard windows

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

 

[Rocky Bennett]

At this point you do need to do a clean install to fix your system.

 

[Peter Martin]

well, i gave the OP a link above on how to add it to context menu, but yes, a clean fresh install, includes deleting all partitions on the windows drive (with only it connected at install time) and let windows handle the install.

 

[Colif]

The problem with taking ownership of C drive is that you are taking ownership away from windows users such as SYSTEM and TrustedInstaler that are required for windows to function. It breaks windows and as said above, only way to fix it is a clean install. reset won't work as permissions have been changed, same applies to any windows tool. System restore won't work.

 

[Peter Martin]

agreed.