External Hard Drive Administrative Rights

Oh goodness. I know. Here it goes again. Trust me, my situation is different. I have two external drives of which I am having trouble accessing/copying or moving folders to another drive. The error is 'You don't currently have permission to access this folder.'

And now here is where my situation is different (names changed for security)

Drives started off on Computer Name: Adam login name: abbheart@hotmail.com
Computer login changed to goo@gmail.com
Computer rebuilt and Computer Name: Sprocket login name: goo@gmail.com <------ it was here where I started to have errors of same as above.
That computer wound up having to have some parts to be replaced.
Moved two drives to another computer with yet another name of Harkness login name: doctor who
And now I cant even come closer to accessing above folders, even when making changes in the security tab to Sprocket/goo@gmail.com or abbheart@hotmail.com.

Is there a way to just reset all permissions to zero, sign in as admin some how and reassign all affected folders and hierarchies to the current name and login?

Thank you. I am trying these now and will report back.

Try3 said:

Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key - TenForums
Change Permissions - TenForums

Denis

Quick update. Using the above links, I was able to setup an admin account, and in turn assign rights for each folder and/or picture that allowed me to move pictures from the failing drive to another drive. Now I am running into another issue. Each time I open the folder or files, I am prompted for the admin password that I created. I'd like to get to the point that I can take this drive full of pictures and videos to any computer, and be able to open each file without the need for an admin password every single time. Any suggestions?

Its likley that every person has the permission set on folders they created so they own them you would need to take ownership of all the folders and sub folders so the ownership would be for you not admin

midnightatom said:

I'd like to get to the point that I can take this drive full of pictures and videos to any computer, and be able to open each file without the need for an admin password every single time. Any suggestions?

Stop using NTFS? If you have space, copy all data to one external drive, reformat the other as eg FAT32 and copy the files over. I believe the latter does not support permissions, so it should become available to all.