Changing Permissions on the second drive to be the same as a main drive

[fj80alex]

I have an HP pavilion dv7t-4000 laptop that currently has only one hard drive. It has OS (Win7 Home Premium and all the software installed). I need to add another drive and just use it to store data on it. Before taking the drive from another laptop (Asus) I cleared windows password. Now, if I use en external SATA enclosure with that drive, I am able to access User's data (this user was an administrator), but I installed that drive to HP laptop (it has two HD bays, I can see the drive, can access everything besides that User's data folder. I haven't really delt with permissions before, so i would appreciate, if someone will guide me in the right direction.

Thank you,
Alex

 

[goombawaho]

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Try the whole USERS folder using this procedure or just the user you care about under the USERS folder.

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[rclarke250]

I need to add another drive and just use it to store data on it." Why not just format the 2nd drive, if it is just going to be a data dump drive?

 

[fj80alex]

First of all, thank you for posting a procedure. Before using the procedure, I decided to create user's folder and copy the user's folder from the secondary drive to my main drive. I was able to copy the data and than tried to open the user folder on the secondary drive and it opened right away without any permission issues. Did the copy cleared the permissions or????

rclarke250 - i couldn't format the secondary drive because the user's data is there and he needs two drives, one for OS and another for storing the data.

Thank you,
Alex

 

[rclarke250]

still don't understand, the installed programs and such from the Asus won't work on the HP in the state they are in, any programs would have to be installed again to register with windows, so if it is just saved files, and stuff, copy them off the drive, and format the drive, dump the saved files back on the drive.