couple big problems for first-time 7 user

unknown00 · 20 Sep 2009

kegobeer said:

unknown00 said:

where can i select "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"? when i right cilck a folder and click take ownership buttons it just goes away in 1 sec

You should re-read Tews's post...

i did...i did step by step...

where can i select "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"? when i right cilck a folder and click take ownership buttons it just goes away in 1 sec

kegobeer · 20 Sep 2009

Try doing it the old fashioned way: open up a directory on your drive, right click, select security -> advanced -> owner -> edit -> tick "replace owner on subcontainers and objects", and select the user to change owner to. Click ok. See how long that takes.

unknown00 · 20 Sep 2009

kegobeer said:

Try doing it the old fashioned way: open up a directory on your drive, right click, select security -> advanced -> owner -> edit -> tick "replace owner on subcontainers and objects", and select the user to change owner to. Click ok. See how long that takes.

this works...but why can't the newer version work? so much easier

also, it still doesn't remove the lock on files even though i am the owner

Zidane24 · 20 Sep 2009

I have read the entire first post many times and yet I can not forsee how any permissions were "cached". My reasoning is what the OP did...he did a clean format install on the new drive that he took from his external. It is a clean fresh OS so permission errors shouldn't be occurring...certaintly not because of cached permissions

As far as the Safely Remove Hardware issue...I am thinking that the firmware on the HD might be broadcasting itself as an external which would mean that there is no way to make Windows think it isn't.

This is a very rare situation as I have personally never heard of someone butchering an external 2.5 to make an internal 2.5...if anyone can help the OP further than please step up

Antman · 20 Sep 2009

Zidane - two points.

The OP did not state that the did a format, just an install.

The internal drive (formerly the external) is showing up as removable because the controller is set as AHCI or RAID (RAID will support a single drive as AHCI).

Zidane24 · 20 Sep 2009

I see that now Antman...I guess I read it too many times that eventually my mind catered to the clean install sort of things...

As far as the Safely Removal Issue my laptop is set to AHCI mode and I don't have the entry for my HD in the list. Is the reason mine and his are different is because of the fact that the OP likely installed Win 7 to the same partition as where his external storage was? Would the partition itself carry such details as if it was a fixed or removable disk?

Zidane24 · 20 Sep 2009

I just restarted to check that I wasn't remembering anything that was wrong...

I indeed have AHCI enabled

kegobeer · 21 Sep 2009

unknown00 said:

kegobeer said:

Try doing it the old fashioned way: open up a directory on your drive, right click, select security -> advanced -> owner -> edit -> tick "replace owner on subcontainers and objects", and select the user to change owner to. Click ok. See how long that takes.

this works...but why can't the newer version work? so much easier

also, it still doesn't remove the lock on files even though i am the owner

At this point, I highly recommend formatting the drive and installing Windows 7 again.

musiclover7 · 21 Sep 2009

Unknown.. If what I just read is true, I think you should perhaps move forward with re-installing windows. Be sure to delete the partition, and format a new one when you do..

unknown00 · 21 Sep 2009

so outa curiosity, what exactly will be "fixed" or changed when i reformat?