Permisson Problems

[iceman845]

Hey THW:
I have reformatted my regular hard drive (the os hd) multiple times throughout the years. For the last 3 formats, my media hard drive has retained the same info on it. Permissions across 2 instances of xp, and vista have remained the same. Until I installed Windows 7. Permissions are completely screwed up, I can't even open my movies; music whatever. I have to manually go in, it tells me i don't have permission to see the security settings bla bla..I set it to administrator like it should, then i can alter the traits.

Why is it doing this? There were no problems before, now it's horrendous. Is there some way i can Mass Default the permissions on my media hard drive. (since it says no one is allowed permissions until i tell it I have permission.)

Thanks a ton.

 

[netxuser]

hello, i have no experience using windows 7, but you can try this, open windows explorer, click tools, then folder options, select view tab, at advance settings, please find USE SIMPLE FILE SHARING, uncheck it and click ok, then you will be back at the windows explorer, right click at the your media drive and select properties, select security tab, then you can add your new user and grant the full permission from there, hope this will help you.

 

[iceman845]

I can already grant permissions, I just need to know if I have to go through each and every file to get back to being able to access them.

 

[tmike]

I'm not sure how you would have ever accomplished it before. A new install results in a new machine SID, and therefore new user SIDs, which won't match the IDs in existing file permissions after an install. Until NewSID came along, this was my biggest hassle with windows. (and, now that that program doesn't work on win 7, and sometimes doesn't on vista x64, i'm back to the hassle).

 

[iceman845]

I've reformatted the main hd prolly 5 times w/ new os's each time and not had a problem with permissions. So yeah, windows 7 definitely has a problem there. I guess the only option is to go to all 4000 or so items and grant permissions to each (around 20 keystrokes, 5 mouse clicks each) 80k keystokes later...