TheHumanParadox
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Greetings Win7 users, I could use your help.
Here's the story: I have Win7 Ultimate x32 (relatively) recently installed on a pc with two HDD's, a 250g and a 500g. I use the 250g as a system partition and the 500g as a media drive (music, videos, photos); I carried this one over from a previous installation, while reformatting the 250g drive with Win7. It's a fairly normal setup I'd say.
However, lately I've been having ENORMOUS issues with the Permissions in Win7. It started out simply not being able to access any of the folders on my media drive, which I fixed with a right-click Take Ownership .dll fix, and that worked for a while. However, lately something else is going on: I can access the files fine in Explorer, but programs cannot write to them. An example: I have my iTunes library redirected to my secondary 500g drive, and when I drag files over it's "supposed" to (and used to) copy the music to my media drive. Lately, I've been getting permissions errors while trying to do this, as well as when trying to update the program. There are other issues I've been having but at the moment, this is the biggest one; I use iTunes incredibly often.
I've researched the heck out of how to give myself full Administrative rights, and have spent much time frustratingly trying to fiddle with the permissions of the HDD, to no avail. The only way I found was enabling the hidden Global Administrator, which doesn't help my current Win7 account. If anyone has dealt with this issue, they can tell you it's extremely irritating...
So, any help with either fixing my permissions or turning my current account into the Global Administrator would be awesome. And if this has already been discussed/solved, apologies, a point in the right direction would be nice.
Thanks
Here's the story: I have Win7 Ultimate x32 (relatively) recently installed on a pc with two HDD's, a 250g and a 500g. I use the 250g as a system partition and the 500g as a media drive (music, videos, photos); I carried this one over from a previous installation, while reformatting the 250g drive with Win7. It's a fairly normal setup I'd say.
However, lately I've been having ENORMOUS issues with the Permissions in Win7. It started out simply not being able to access any of the folders on my media drive, which I fixed with a right-click Take Ownership .dll fix, and that worked for a while. However, lately something else is going on: I can access the files fine in Explorer, but programs cannot write to them. An example: I have my iTunes library redirected to my secondary 500g drive, and when I drag files over it's "supposed" to (and used to) copy the music to my media drive. Lately, I've been getting permissions errors while trying to do this, as well as when trying to update the program. There are other issues I've been having but at the moment, this is the biggest one; I use iTunes incredibly often.
I've researched the heck out of how to give myself full Administrative rights, and have spent much time frustratingly trying to fiddle with the permissions of the HDD, to no avail. The only way I found was enabling the hidden Global Administrator, which doesn't help my current Win7 account. If anyone has dealt with this issue, they can tell you it's extremely irritating...
So, any help with either fixing my permissions or turning my current account into the Global Administrator would be awesome. And if this has already been discussed/solved, apologies, a point in the right direction would be nice.
Thanks