Windows 10: TAKEOWN fails: Access is denied.

Hard drive rescued from broken laptop is connected to new MS Surface Pro as D:\. Directory listing is normal except for D:\Users\Me, which was apparently empty. Attempted to take ownership as Everyone with "Replace all child object permissions ...". This ran ok for three hours 2TB drive! and then failed with "Access has been denied" from memory - slightly unusual wording.To resolve mixed ownership, I tried: C:\Users\Me>TAKEOWN /F D:\Users\Me /RERROR: Access is denied.It failed as shown above. Now I really need help, please.

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Folder access denied and Take Ownership fails

Hello,

I have been dealing with an issue lately not being able to access the files from an external drive. That drive contains the windows 10 files that I had on my old pc. I have tried many methods of trying to take folder ownership and it keeps failing, error
messages include: "You have been denied permission to access this folder, to gain access...security tab" which I have tried multiple of times and still no luck. I tried to change the owner to admin, my user, everyone still nothing, all I get is "Error Applying
Security...Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access denied". I have also tried using a third-party software "Take Ownership" even that failed.

Besides that I tried to perform cmd commands in admin such as check the disk and the response I get is "CHKSDK is not available for RAW drivers". I even tried:

• takeown /f S:\path/r /d y
• icacls S:\path /grant administrators: f /t

The response from the above command is: "Error: The request has failed due to a fatal device hardware error".

Not sure what else to do. I would appreciate if someone can suggest a possible solution. I got some important files stored there and I really dont wanna lose them.

Thanks in advance.

James

 

Takeown failing to own folder.

So I have this old account that I don't use on my local drive (C and want to delete it.

But I can't because I don't have permission. I used the takeown command with cmd.

Cmd running as Administrator and using the command: takeown /f <folder> /r /d y

The error I get is "INFO: Access is denied. ("C:Users\*\folder)

It would be really helpful if I could delete the folder.

 

Understanding 'Access Denied' so that permissions can be reverted - icacls and takeown

• Before taking ownership of files and folders I would like to understand how to view the current permissions so that they may be reverted.
  
• I am reciving an 'Access Denied' message to view or save permissions with elevated command prompt for location: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData in Windows 10 enviroment.
  
• It looks like that I may need to take ownership first, then can view the permissions, and use something like icacls 'reset' command to fix it afterwards.
  

If I try to view permissions:

If I try to save an ACL file:

In the answer to 'Understanding how to use Icals & Takeown' the owner of the folder was NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller which may infact may be a standard in Windows 10, though I am only guessing.

Should I just use takeown, and icals, find out the permissions and then use the reset command.

Likewise with the ACL, one would need to take ownership before creating, or is there a work around?

Reading:

• SU - Understanding how to use Icals & Takeown to make changes and reset in Windows 10
  
• SU - Create List of Access Denied Files & Folders
  
• SU - Setting Deny Permissions with ICACLS on “This Folder”
  
• SU - Is there a way in which I can use takeown to apply ownership to every directory on the drive?
  
• SU - Takeown grant permission
  
• SU Can I revert changes from the TAKEOWN and ICACLS commands?
  
• Howtogeek - Reverse take ownership
  
• Faqforge - Take Ownership of a File or Folder by Command in Windows
  
• Microsoft - ICACLS setowner and GRANT operation appears to be causing some existing perms on subfolders to be removed. Why
  
• Itprotoday - Removing a User or Group’s Permissions
  
• SS46 - Takeown
  
• SS64 - Icacls