Win 8 has some radical new security on the file system.
When I install a new OS on a Laptop I have a set of files that include my normal programs and thier data that is about 12GB that I use on a new computer..
Its too big for a disc and USB is slow from a memory stick.
I use Toshiba Tecra laptops and the hard drive is made to be quickly and easily removed.
I do my OS install. Then I pull the drive and place it in a hot swap enclosure on my main computer and drop all my needed files on it. I then put the hard disc back into the laptop..
I did the same thing with my windows 8 install.
Several surprizes occured..
When I put the laptop disc into my win 7 hot swap bay win 7 said the disc appeared corrupt and wanted to fix it. I said no.. Next it said my trash file was corrupted and needed to be deleted. I said no..
I could see the contents of the disc. So I copied the directory including the files I needed over to the drive. They copied without error and showed on the drive..
I pulled the drive and popped it back in the win 8 laptop.
NO FILES.. What I copied was missing..
I went and did it again to be sure and yeap nothing. Win 8 could need see files I placed there using win 7 from another computer by copying directly to the disc..
Next I formatted a left over partition on the drive with NTFS from windows 8. I pulled the drive and placed it into the win 7 computer... I copied files.. This time I couild see the files I copied on the win 8 machine.. HOWEVER they had all sorts of permissions and restrictions imposed on them that made them unusable and blocked.
It would even set the read only flag all by itself on a file if it accessed it and apperetly did not have the right permissions. It had some defense..
After ALOT of permission changes and reownership of files I got the program to run.
I could not however get my data to work with install programs. Even after owning the entire directories and files and changing permissions on everything to allow "everyone" access.
I gave up.. Clearly win 8 has some new protection that if it finds files it did not place on its hard drive it flags them and will not trust them in any way.
I then installed Teamviewer and used filetransfer and pulled over the 12GB directory and everything worked without any changes to permissions at all..
CLEARLY win 8 has some serious security changes in its file structure. If the OS did not place the file on the disc itself forget it..
BTW I even formatted a partition on the win 8 drive using the win 7 computer and win 8 still refused to run or access the files.
When I install a new OS on a Laptop I have a set of files that include my normal programs and thier data that is about 12GB that I use on a new computer..
Its too big for a disc and USB is slow from a memory stick.
I use Toshiba Tecra laptops and the hard drive is made to be quickly and easily removed.
I do my OS install. Then I pull the drive and place it in a hot swap enclosure on my main computer and drop all my needed files on it. I then put the hard disc back into the laptop..
I did the same thing with my windows 8 install.
Several surprizes occured..
When I put the laptop disc into my win 7 hot swap bay win 7 said the disc appeared corrupt and wanted to fix it. I said no.. Next it said my trash file was corrupted and needed to be deleted. I said no..
I could see the contents of the disc. So I copied the directory including the files I needed over to the drive. They copied without error and showed on the drive..
I pulled the drive and popped it back in the win 8 laptop.
NO FILES.. What I copied was missing..
I went and did it again to be sure and yeap nothing. Win 8 could need see files I placed there using win 7 from another computer by copying directly to the disc..
Next I formatted a left over partition on the drive with NTFS from windows 8. I pulled the drive and placed it into the win 7 computer... I copied files.. This time I couild see the files I copied on the win 8 machine.. HOWEVER they had all sorts of permissions and restrictions imposed on them that made them unusable and blocked.
It would even set the read only flag all by itself on a file if it accessed it and apperetly did not have the right permissions. It had some defense..
After ALOT of permission changes and reownership of files I got the program to run.
I could not however get my data to work with install programs. Even after owning the entire directories and files and changing permissions on everything to allow "everyone" access.
I gave up.. Clearly win 8 has some new protection that if it finds files it did not place on its hard drive it flags them and will not trust them in any way.
I then installed Teamviewer and used filetransfer and pulled over the 12GB directory and everything worked without any changes to permissions at all..
CLEARLY win 8 has some serious security changes in its file structure. If the OS did not place the file on the disc itself forget it..
BTW I even formatted a partition on the win 8 drive using the win 7 computer and win 8 still refused to run or access the files.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win 8
- Motherboard
- ASUS Rampage III Extreme
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX580 FTW