• Tasks for the weekend – August 7, 2021 – plan on taking ownership

    Posted on August 8, 2021 at 00:13 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    This post isn’t about a task I want you to do NOW, rather it’s a task you may need to do. Today I was fixing up an HP envy laptop and swapping out a misbehaving hard drive and replacing it with a SSD drive. While doing so, I placed the old hard drive into an external usb drive enclosure so should I forget any files, I could get them back. As part of the process I often have to take ownership of the files in order to copy the “my documents” folder back to the computer I’m working on. I’m a fan of adding “take ownership” to the right mouse click menu system so I can easily take ownership of something when I need to. You can manually add this, or use a registry key to add it to your right mouse click. Once you do that, you can easily take ownership of any external hard drive that you are wanting to get data from. Without this, you’ll get a prompt that you don’t have rights to user folders.

    When you are moving computers, I tend to do so a bit manually and not use any migration software. Ideally you should plan ahead and export out the bookmarks, but if you’ve forgotten, never fear, you can find the bookmark backup file on the old hard drive.

    As an aside, finding where they hide all of the screws was fun. The good news is that I didn’t have any spare parts once I was done.

     

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