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how do i remove the administrator requirement for manipulating files on non-system hard drives in windows 7?

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Mar 15, 20267006 views
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I recently upgraded from xp 32bit to win7 ultimate 64bit. i formatted the OS drive and installed on that, but i left my other drives alone. Now when i get into windows 7, every time i try to add, move or delete a file on one of these secondary drives/partitions, it prompts me with a dialog that say…

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Silly me, i figured it out; i needed to also add myself specifically to the permissions and grant myself full control; that fixed it all.

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