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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?
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On the old PC, right-click the drive you wish to move, select Properties > Security > Advanced, change the owner to Everyone, tick the box to Replace owner on child objects under this object, then apply the changes to the new PC.
