Taking ownership of C:\ should come with a huge warning or not be a thing

Minusorange · 11 Jan 2019 at 22:55

Don't do it, it should not even be an option for how destructive it is to windows where you can't even run the reset this PC in recovery because none of the files work any more

Fortunately using a flash boot of ubuntu I was able to save all important files but damn I could have lost everything

And yes, I was foolish enough to not do a recent backup as such it was simpler to just reinstall win10 fresh than use a 5month backup because I'd purged quite a lot in 5 months and installed a tonne of new stuff

Minusorange · 13 Jan 2019 at 00:10

mrbell1984 said:
Thanks for the info, why did you do it in the first place though that’s the question lol

I had some audio plugins that weren't working

They worked when I took ownership until I restarted the comp and everything went to ****

2 days to reinstall everything, also thought I'd lost some crypto but fortunately salvaged the wallet, now I'm just taking ownership of the folders the plugins are in instead of whole drive

Seem to have everything back to normal "touch wood"

Minusorange · 13 Jan 2019 at 12:13

It didn't have any warnings, so I thought it would be okay

For how utterly destructive it actually is I don't even know why it's an option :confused:

Minusorange · 13 Jan 2019 at 18:00

mrbell1984 said:
It's an option for when you do need to change permissions.

I don't understand why it is an option though because it corrupts all system files, including backups and the files needed to do factory reset too and from google there seems to be zero way to reset the damage unless you do a fresh install and manage to find a way to access the files to backup the important stuff

I've somehow managed to free up 150gig though on C: since the fresh install, so there is some reward for breaking windows along with the learning experience