To many files to change ownership

[RudyWaz]

Hi.
I have a 3tb external hard drive and one folder that contains 372 folders which I can’t access.

(Due to a recent computer change) I now I must change ownership of every folder separately 372 times.

Is there an easier and a faster way to do it? Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Trouble]

the "takeown" utility should do it for you.
It's a native, built-in tool that you run at an admin command prompt

How To Silently Recursively Take Ownership of a Folder and Sub-Folders In Command Prompt - NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM

One of the first few things you might encounter after upgrading your existing Windows to Windows 8.1 is the file and folder/directory permission problem.

www.nextofwindows.com

 

[shell]

Take Ownership of the whoe disk

shell

 

[davehc]

If the link is too much for you, Try the portable desktop fix.

unzip the attached. It should give you two reg edits. One to add and one to remove. After you have run the !Add!, it will give you the option, in any file or folder, to "Take Ownership" , when you right click the file/folder. It may not be 100% successful with certain system file which are locked by Microsoft.