HDD access problems/corrupt

[oli356]

Well I just put together my new PC and the hard drive I had in it previous is being a bit weird.

At first it was showing as a foreign drive, I right clicked and imported the drive. That gave me access to partition, O and H.

Partition A I did the usual become owner and have full permission but it is being weird. All the file/folder names are in blue and when I try and delete a file I get "The recycle bin on A;\ is corrupted. Do you want to empty the recycle bin for this drive?"

When I try to open any file (which isn't in the root of the drive) I get error messages about permissions.

Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks.

 

[bremen1874]

It's slightly unclear, but you do appear to have managed to assign A: to two different partitions at the same time. The first 100MB partition wouldn't normally have a drive letter assigned to it at all.

When you took ownership did you make sure that you chose to apply it to all child objects? Even after taking ownership you may still need to add access rights.

Coloured file and folder names used to indicate that compression was enabled. I assume it's still the same.

 

[oli356]

Well, I don't think that was there with my old motherboard anyway. I don't see why there should be a 100 MB partition anyway, this was never a Windows drive so it's not the system reserve. Unsure why the drive is is a simple partition either while the others are primary partitions.

Umm yeah I did I think. I've tried multiple times with the Permissions and ownership etc. I seem to be able to access all files now and deleting things isn't a problem.
Every file/folder is still blue though and folders in the root of the partition have a lock icon next to them.