The problem I find with that scenario is that no matter what you use to correct it, some files get skipped for whatever reason. You can compare two files with the same perms and owner, where one will succeed and the other won’t.
I did try this PS module with some success: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/1abd77a5-9c0b-4a2b-acef-90dbb2b84e85 I think it was successful on maybe 95% or more of the files. I then remembered that we still had an old version of Security Explorer by ScriptLogic, which as it turns out has a perpetual license (just no upgrade or support). Security Explorer probably got 99.x% of them. *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Levinson *Sent:* Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:26 PM *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Reset permissions on hard disk - Windows 10 Enterprise I’ve come across this issue many times before and don’t really have an easy way to resolve. System has two hard disks – a C drive and a D drive. D has all the data, C is the OS and page. C drive goes bad, so it is replaced, OS is reinstalled clean (Windows 10 Enterprise) After taking ownership of the D drive and everything below it, there are still lots of folders that won’t open or allow reads or writes. Even though effective permissions says I have full access to folders – I receive permission denied errors and can’t seem to figure out how to get the access back. Permissions on D are for previous OS – so there are a lot of GUID users in there with no user names. Is there an easy script I can run (cmd or bat) that will delete all the permissions on the D drive and reset the ownership of every object? The GUI doesn’t seem to work properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
