Solved Admin Rights Required

My PC was acting quirky for several weeks - sporadic boot start up times between 45 to 120 seconds, memory glitches, desktop hanging at the logon screen after pressing any key to enter a password, GPU would randomly hang in standard VGA mode even after a clean install of the current GeForce studio drivers, etc. An in-depth memory test passed with no issues. CrystalDisk Info looked good except one of the non-OS auxiliary WD Black M.2 drives (from 2017) was at 95% health. I backed up all my data, disconnected or physically removed all drives except for the primary OS drive, performed a DOS commandline diskpart clean and convert to GPT sequence, then executed a clean install of Win-11 Pro 23H2 from a fresh Media Creator download installed onto a USB 3.1 thumb drive. I installed all the current drivers and software updates for MS, Intel, ASUS, and MSI GPU.

PC works fine for the most part, all the old glitches went away, but now I have a new issue I haven't cracked yet. I get this error when trying to move a file to the USB drive: "Destination Folder Access Denied - You'll need to provide administrator permission to move to this folder...[folder_name]...Continue | Skip | Cancel " Even though I'm logged in as administrator, I have to click "Continue" every time now, whereas I may have had to do it once the first time on select system folders and other users' folders, but never have I had to do it every time I accessed a folder or drive. Right click "New" only gives the new folder option with the blue Defender shield icon and nothing else. I don't have these issues with the same USB drive plugged into another laptop running Win-11 Home, so I don't think it's an individual or group folder or file permission error on the drive itself.

Is there some some kind of UAC or MS Defender (firewall) setting that I'm missing on my fresh OS install? Frankly, I'm stumped. Thoughts, ideas? Thanks.

You may of used this USB in another PC?

Try this:

Open a command prompt as Admin

Enter the following

icacls X: /grant Everyone:F

Where as “X” should be replaced with the drive letter of your USB.

Alternatively, take a look at this thread.

@antspants. Worked like a charm!

C:\Windows\System32>icacls X: /grant Everyone:F
processed file: X:
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files
C:\Windows\System32>icacls Y: /grant Everyone:F
processed file: Y:
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

I'll keep this in my list of Windows DOS and DISM error correction tools for future reference.

Thanks!

Good news, Z.