Windows 7 - cannot access my own external disk

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Published on 2012-11-30T20:45:18Z Indexed on 2012/12/01 23:08 UTC
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I use Windows 7 Home Premium and external USB disk with NTFS partition.

I cannot write-access the my own files on it, even as a member of Admnistrators group!

Is there any way how to go around this permission checking, without actually writing some permission information to every folder on it? I have 3 external disks (up to 1TB), and I have thousands hundreds of files on each!!! Doing some permission change, that will actually go recursivelly through all folders on all my disks is plain brain damage!!

1) Is there any way how to change it somehow globally? (like mount options...)

.. Or how to go around this annoying permission checking? It was working in Win XP normally!

2) if not, and I must do the recursive operation on all folders, how to do it PERMANENTLY, so that I don't need to do it again on another Windows 7 computer!

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