After restore an image on a new drive; all my folders are read only, even if I uncheck read only

Arrhenius

I did image and restore my  Windows os on a new drive; and now it boots fine.

Although I did notice that if I create new folders, they are set as read only; no matter what I do. I tried to remove the read only state in the folder settings but when I check preferences again, it does show the read only again.

This is affecting negatively some applications (like Origin for example, which tell me that it can't use the C drive folder I created, to store the downloads, because it is read only).

Did the imaging mess up the permissions? If so, how do I fix it?

sri369

This happens at times, esp for folders that are used by Windows. It locks them up and need to be explicitly granted access for your user.
Personally, I would recommend installing anything and everything outside of windows purview to a non windows drive - like game apps, games, and such. Default ones like office, winrar, utilities and such can go to C Program files and such. This not only helps isolate these programs from windows drive issues, but also helps keep the system drive image smaller.

godricide

The folder I'm needing to access is outside of any Windows core apps. It's not even on the same drive.
I need to know how to fix the issue. The issue is "How do you change the folder's attributes so that it will no longer be "Read Only".
I've gone into my PowerShell (Admin) and did the whole "attrib -r +s <drive>:\<folder>" thing -- it didn't work. I need some options.

Arrhenius

I just changed permissions by hand; by going in the folder properties and change the ownership.

Took a while going from folder to folder, since the attributes were not applied recursively (even if you use the -r); but ended up fixing the issue for the time being.

In the worst case, just wipe the drive clean; I am about to do it anyway after a year of ownership...got so much garbage on the disk that a full install is almost a must every year or 2.

xapim

Arrhenius
This works great when u need to take ownership of anything even windows only folders

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

sri369

xapim said:

Arrhenius
This works great when u need to take ownership of anything even windows only folders

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

+1 to the above.

A new windows install does not know who the data belongs to and so needs to be granted explicit permission to take over control in order to access them.

Arrhenius

Indeed it is a great thing to have a contextual menu to fix permissions. I am so used to linux that I rarely have to deal with such things in Windows