Windows 7: External Hardrive and Permissions

Matt,

Now let's see yo managed to take ownership.

The drive letter of the external drive is ?

Let's verity that you are actually the owner.



WIN E | right-click on the external drive | choose Properties | Security tab |
Advanced button |Owner tab

Now who is shown in the "Current Owner" box?

Ok the drive letter is "I". The owner is myself Matthew Dobson.

Excellent.

Now go to an elevated command prompt.
win |type cmd | right-click on cmd.exe and choose Run as administrator

type TAKEOWN /F I:\ /R

That's going to make doubly sure that you are the owner

I think I got already!! Finally.

Thankyou very much for your help, it has been VERY much appreciated!!

Glad to have been able to help.