Steps to the Permissions dance. (Moving hard drives to new PC)

Hi guys.

Not sure what forums to put this in.

I'm about to build some new PC's, they will have new system drives but I plan to put several of the (hdd/ssd) drives in my existing PC's into them.

There's always the ownership and permssions hassles. Remove this, add that, apply to all or just this folder, etc etc. One of the drives has several user folders on it, docs, pictures, music, and such so that that stuff won't get lost if if windows has an anurism.

I can figure it all out but is there a written tutorial on doing this already?

If you are adding a drive from another PC as a secondary drive, when you access the drives User files from that computer it will say you Do Not have Permission to access this folder, click the OK button., it should give you access to the drives folder.

You can also add the Take Ownership to the Right click Context menu which allows you to right click any folder to Take Ownership of it.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the problem. I move drives, with and without an OS, from PC to PC all the time without ever any Permission problems.

Me thinks you complain too much.

Permissions are a Microsoft invention, and I just don't play nice with Microsoft!!!

To get around the few permission problems that I do run into, in Windows, I use a program called, "Grant Admin Full Control", to give me Full Control over all files and folders, to do with them as I please.
Download it and give it a Try. I've found it more powerful than just "Take Ownership".

TM