I've recently started using W10 alongside W7, file permissions have been a bit of a pain. I would sometimes have to go back into W7 to change permissions so I could take ownership of files in W10 then change permissions there.
Yesterday I took an image of my W7 drive with Macrium Reflect free, tried something that accidentally deleted the W7 partition, then tried to restore it. Unfortunately the image (and another I took at the same time) is corrupt. So I no longer have the option to go back into W7 and change permissions. I could reinstall of course but I'll probably just run with a brand new fresh install of W10.
What I'm after is a way to bulk assign the same owner and permissions to every file on a disk. I know you should in theory just right click the root folder and change it there, but various things come up:
- Recycle bins from the two windows versions seem incompatible so I have to hit "ignore" about 5000 times.
- Some folders deep in the tree seem to have odd permissions and don't want to be changed.
Is there a way to say "set this owner and permissions for every file on this disk without asking me a bunch of questions"?