Migrating Old HD to New System

[Edi]

What's the quickest way to migrate a new HD to a new system with regard to all the permissions? This is something that I generally have not needed to deal with, but now it is relevant.

I did find the instructions on how to change ownership of files and folders, but applying that to some several hundred GB of stuff takes a good while to do through the Windows permissions system. The old HD was in my Windows XP Pro system as a secondary drive used only for installing games and storing files and I transferred it as is to the new Windows 7 system.

That's when I ran into the permissions problem, can't edit anything unless I run Windows Explorer as admin. Applying the change of ownership to the entire hard drive and all folders, subfolders and files seems to be progressing nicely enough when done with the instructions from here, but I was wondering if there isn't a more efficient way of doing it.

[Kojiro]

This has worked for me. It adds a tiny option to take ownership of any file and does it pretty fast. You can do it on a whole drive and of course, depending on size it will take a while but overall it's pretty quick.

[Vendetta]

icacls d:\ /setowner Youruser /T /C

From an elevated command prompt.

That will set the owner of all files on the drive to Youruser.

[Edi]

Thanks. That will be good to know for the future. I managed to do things the hard way as well as set permissions so there is now rwx access to the secondary drive for everyone. But I'll be needing that fairly soon again, so these are useful.