Enhanced Interrogator
[H]ard|Gawd
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So first, I'll be talking about three PC's, I'll call them New PC, Old PC, Oldest PC.
I just built new PC with SSD, installed Windows 10. Take drive from Old and Older PC's, since they have my Steam and other games on them, and put them in my new PC. I open them up, and most folders (including Program files) in both drives are read only. Steam can't do anything with them.
This is weird because last year when I moved Older PC's drive into Old PC, it worked fine. Added my old steam folder, it read everything played everything. But now, moving Older PC drive and Old PC drive into New PC, both have their Program Files locked out. Went into properties, tried to untick read-only, and it seemed to go through with it, giving "access denied" on a couple files. But when I go to check properites again, Program Files is still read-only! Tried to change permissions with some stuff, then canceled out (then got a nasty error message saying I could really screw stuff up, something about files existing in incompatible states or something).
So I put Old PC's drive back into Old PC, and then everything started popping up "Access Denied" even the text files I have on my desktop! So I freaked and restarted Old PC, and it did a drive repair even though I didn't tell it to. Now I can open stuff on my desktop, but nothing on my taskbar works, and I can't open the start menu (or the right click start menu).
I mean... WTF
Can anybody give me any advice on how to move forward? I guess the easiest thing will be to just format those drives and redownload everything. But that's like a terabyte and a half of data!
I just built new PC with SSD, installed Windows 10. Take drive from Old and Older PC's, since they have my Steam and other games on them, and put them in my new PC. I open them up, and most folders (including Program files) in both drives are read only. Steam can't do anything with them.
This is weird because last year when I moved Older PC's drive into Old PC, it worked fine. Added my old steam folder, it read everything played everything. But now, moving Older PC drive and Old PC drive into New PC, both have their Program Files locked out. Went into properties, tried to untick read-only, and it seemed to go through with it, giving "access denied" on a couple files. But when I go to check properites again, Program Files is still read-only! Tried to change permissions with some stuff, then canceled out (then got a nasty error message saying I could really screw stuff up, something about files existing in incompatible states or something).
So I put Old PC's drive back into Old PC, and then everything started popping up "Access Denied" even the text files I have on my desktop! So I freaked and restarted Old PC, and it did a drive repair even though I didn't tell it to. Now I can open stuff on my desktop, but nothing on my taskbar works, and I can't open the start menu (or the right click start menu).
I mean... WTF
Can anybody give me any advice on how to move forward? I guess the easiest thing will be to just format those drives and redownload everything. But that's like a terabyte and a half of data!