b-man Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 ok so i have a 1TB WD usb portable hard drive in ntfs format in win7 64bitand since using win7 i have had it plugged into my main pc as backupsi have then put other stuff on it and using it to transfer between computers but every time i plug it into a different computer it wants to format it and it requires me to take ownership before im able to access it. then when i put it back into my computer i have to do it again!is there anyway i can set the usb drive so i dont need to set permissions every time i use it...? i dont even know how it got that way.....i have even set it up in an exact copy of my windows7 pc (fresh format and then a fresh format in a virtual pc) and it still requires to take ownership??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 It is because when a new hard disk is added to a system that was made on another PC, it is seen as being a foreign disk. It may have something to do with how your enclosure hardware reports the drive to the OS. Does it appear as a removable disk or as a hard drive? One way to tell is how it appears in Computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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