Permission Required??!!

gregsm88 · 2 Apr 2014 at 17:36

Hello,

I am having issues. Basically I have a Maxtor OneTouch4 Mini 160gb USB hard drive.
I have a laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium.

My hard drive has created a folder named "e37cb46602e6176c8f68c6e8" and within it, 26 folders all randomly numbered.

In each of these sub-folders are 3 files. I have no idea what these are or how they got there, but I didn't create them.

Now when I go to delete e37cb46602e6176c8f68c6e8, I get an error message come up saying :-

"You need permission to perform this action.

You require permission from Sarah-HP\Sarah to make changes to this folder."

I am logged on as Sarah, so I have no idea why it is saying this?

Any help on this would be gratefully received as its really starting to bug me.

Thank you.

bledd · 2 Apr 2014 at 17:46

You need to take ownership of the folder.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659.aspx

Probably a Windows Update leftover, safe to delete

gregsm88 · 2 Apr 2014 at 17:59

Tried this, it does not work? I tried changing the owner to Everyone, as everyone has full access rights, and as soon as I change it to everyone and try to delete it, it changes from permission required by Sarah-HP\Sarah, to permission required by Everyone to change this folder?

It seems no matter who the owner is, or what access they require, I cant delete it?

gregsm88 · 2 Apr 2014 at 18:07

Done it, I have no idea how, I basically had to go into each file and give it individual access rights. What a pain. Never mind, thanks for your help.