Take ownership in windows 7/8 does not work

Posted by John on Super User See other posts from Super User or by John
Published on 2012-06-07T20:22:51Z Indexed on 2012/06/07 22:43 UTC
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I have taken ownership of my external HDD and now I should be able to access every folder but I can't. There are numerous folders for which I don't have the ownership of. I tried taking ownership of those but after I close/reopen an explorer windows the ownership resets itself to what it was before.

For example I have a folder which now has this S-1-5-21-95661877-3860777391-1413521220-1000 and a subfolder of this which has Unable to display current owner.

If I take the ownership of the subfolder it shows me as the owner but I still can't access it; I get "You don't currently have permission ...".

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