Hi,
I just bought a new laptop with windows 8 for wife. On my old laptop I have windows 8 too. I have 2 TB HD connected to my Old laptop which contain almost all of my Media files etc.
Now I wanted to pass some stuff to my wife so I connected the External drive to the new laptop but to my surprise the windows 8 don't even want me to open any folder on it and give error message about the permissions etc. So I google a little and try to fix this Permission thing and try to take owner ship of folder on new laptop but Quickly it turned in to horror.
When I take owner on the folder it work well but then I cant open any file inside it, I have to go and manually take owner of each and every file, I have 1000s of file I just cant do it 1 by 1. it will take forever. If I click on folder and check box to apply to child sub folder and etc, it just start giving me error message for each file saying it cant change permission etc for each file name.
How I am suppose to use an External HD on another computer ? What kind of sick joke is this ? The external drives basic is that you go somewhere and plug and use the content on that computer why Microsoft made it so difficult ? If it was for security purpose then why anyone can change the ownership and see the file so at the end why making the life difficult for normal user ?
Anyway I am not here to complain but this thing is just driving me crazy for 2 days now.
So if anyone can please help solve this ? What is the simple and easy way to do it please ?
Thanks so much for all your help
I just bought a new laptop with windows 8 for wife. On my old laptop I have windows 8 too. I have 2 TB HD connected to my Old laptop which contain almost all of my Media files etc.
Now I wanted to pass some stuff to my wife so I connected the External drive to the new laptop but to my surprise the windows 8 don't even want me to open any folder on it and give error message about the permissions etc. So I google a little and try to fix this Permission thing and try to take owner ship of folder on new laptop but Quickly it turned in to horror.
When I take owner on the folder it work well but then I cant open any file inside it, I have to go and manually take owner of each and every file, I have 1000s of file I just cant do it 1 by 1. it will take forever. If I click on folder and check box to apply to child sub folder and etc, it just start giving me error message for each file saying it cant change permission etc for each file name.
How I am suppose to use an External HD on another computer ? What kind of sick joke is this ? The external drives basic is that you go somewhere and plug and use the content on that computer why Microsoft made it so difficult ? If it was for security purpose then why anyone can change the ownership and see the file so at the end why making the life difficult for normal user ?
Anyway I am not here to complain but this thing is just driving me crazy for 2 days now.
So if anyone can please help solve this ? What is the simple and easy way to do it please ?
Thanks so much for all your help
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1