Permissionless external drive with NTFS
Problem
I have an external hard disk which has 1 partition, formatted in NTFS. I use this drive on multiple computers with a different logins on different machines, Windows XP and Windows 7. All files are plain old files, not OS encrypted or compressed. Every now and then Windows 7 does not let me access some files, citing permission problems. I can circumvent this per case by taking ownership and setting appropriate permissions. This, however, is tedious. Is there a simple way to tell Windows to not enforce or store any permissions on any file/directory on a partition?
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Fix for: Permissionless external drive with NTFS
Your external drive is formatted with the NTFS file system, which supports access restrictions. Unfortunately, while some users and security groups are built-in to Windows with predefined Security IDs which are the same on all machines (such as Everyone), other users and groups have SIDs derived from the machine they're defined on. To normalize the situation you should: While logged-in as Administrator, right-click the drive's root directory and select Properties. Click the Security tab, then t…
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