Question Removing All Need for Permissions to Read/Write to Drives?

[avrona]

I remember doing it somehow or at least to some extent using the Registry Editor in Windows, though I can't remember exactly how, so does someone know how to do it? I'm using Windows 10 in the latest version.

 

[MPF-Dean]

Are you trying to share your pc with someone?

Create a new user, non admin

For one, your profile will be inaccessible by default to that user

Secondly, right click anyfolder, properties, security, advanced, disable inheritence, convert all permissions not remove, then remove the user or if as you say you want to fully disable, go into that user security properties in the folder properties, set all access for read and write as deny

Check apply to subfolders

That folder is now "standalone" parent, sub folders etc are under your permissions not the users, both people can still use the machine as normal

 

[avrona]

Are you trying to share your pc with someone?

Create a new user, non admin

For one, your profile will be inaccessible by default to that user

Secondly, right click anyfolder, properties, security, advanced, disable inheritence, convert all permissions not remove, then remove the user or if as you say you want to fully disable, go into that user security properties in the folder properties, set all access for read and write as deny

Check apply to subfolders

That folder is now "standalone" parent, sub folders etc are under your permissions not the users, both people can still use the machine as normal

No I'm not trying to share it with anyone. I'm the only user of this PC and despite that I have issues writing to my own drives.

 

[MPF-Dean]

No I'm not trying to share it with anyone. I'm the only user of this PC and despite that I have issues writing to my own drives.

Whats the error message? Access denied? Download a takeownership script (registry) and apply it to the entire drive from root

 

[avrona]

Whats the error message? Access denied? Download a takeownership script (registry) and apply it to the entire drive from root

Yeah that's the error message and the take ownership registry script doesn't work, I already tried it.

 

[USAFRet]

I remember doing it somehow or at least to some extent using the Registry Editor in Windows, though I can't remember exactly how, so does someone know how to do it? I'm using Windows 10 in the latest version.

You absolutely cannot "remove all permissions" for the entire drive space.
That will absolutely kill your OS. There are different permission level than 'admin'.

Now...what problem are you actually trying to solve?

 

[avrona]

You absolutely cannot "remove all permissions" for the entire drive space.
That will absolutely kill your OS. There are different permission level than 'admin'.

Now...what problem are you actually trying to solve?

Like I said I cannot access some random locations. I can't write to them, it just says "A required privilege is not held by the client". Trying to change permissions in the security tab to change this results in an "access is denied" message for each file. Using "Take Ownership" also didn't work.

 

[USAFRet]

"some random locations "

What locations?

 

[avrona]

"some random locations "

What locations?

Like just F: for example, seems to be the biggest location I can't write anything to. It's a hard drive, and local on the PC, not a network location.

 

[USAFRet]

Like just F: for example, seems to be the biggest location I can't write anything to. It's a hard drive, and local on the PC, not a network location.

You don't remove permissions, you fix the actual problem.
And you especially don't remove all permissions on the entire system. And you really really don't delve into RegEdit to do this.

We out here would need a better description of the system to start to diagnose.

 

[avrona]

You don't remove permissions, you fix the actual problem.
And you especially don't remove all permissions on the entire system. And you really really don't delve into RegEdit to do this.

We out here would need a better description of the system to start to diagnose.

Well what info do you need then?

 

[USAFRet]

Well what info do you need then?

OS, motherboard, specific drives and what are on them...as much detail as you can give us.

 

[avrona]

OS, motherboard, specific drives and what are on them...as much detail as you can give us.

Windows 10 Home in latest version, X570 Aorus Elite, and the drives are a Aorus PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD as the main drive with the OS, an optical drive, a Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 hard drive, and a Seagate ST31000524AS hardrive, with the latter being the F drive I mentioned earlier. All drives report as healthy in CrystalDisk Info.

 

[USAFRet]

So you can do normal operations on all the other drives?
Just the one Seagate is the issue?

 

[avrona]

So you can do normal operations on all the other drives?
Just the one Seagate is the issue?

Yes it appears to be so, it's the only drive where I've seen this problem so far.