Win 7 : not allowed save to hard drive.

Jerichoholic

I have Windows 7 on a laptop. The problem is that the C drive and D drives were somehow swapped around. The C: drive has pretty much no space left on it and the D drive has hundreds of gigs left. The problem is that the drive wont allow me to save anything to it without the administrator's permission even though I am the only profile on the computer.

Is there a way to reset all this user permission rubbish or a way to allow access to the D drive?

Fysh

The easiest thing might be to nuke the partition and start again, though obviously that depends on whether you've got stuff on there you want to keep.

yoyo

Jerichoholic wrote: »

I have Windows 7 on a laptop. The problem is that the C drive and D drives were somehow swapped around. The C: drive has pretty much no space left on it and the D drive has hundreds of gigs left. The problem is that the drive wont allow me to save anything to it without the administrator's permission even though I am the only profile on the computer.

Is there a way to reset all this user permission rubbish or a way to allow access to the D drive?

Right click drive D, properties>Security>Advanced and click change permissions, click your user name, click edit & then give it full control and apply to this folder, sub folders & files, May do it, if not click on the ownership tab, and click your name and tick inherit all ownership checkbox

Nick

Auvers

Right click on the hardrive from windows explorer.

Go to properties.

Click on Security.

Click edit.

Add "everyone" to the group and assign the permissions you want

Job done

JDxtra

I would not recommend the above approach as you will be opening up the security permissions on files/folders which should be restricted.

Maybe create a sub-folder on as an administrator and from here reset the permissions to allow you access.

yoyo

JDxtra wrote: »

I would not recommend the above approach as you will be opening up the security permissions on files/folders which should be restricted.

Maybe create a sub-folder on as an administrator and from here reset the permissions to allow you access.

If isnt the windows drive I dont think that would be much an issiue, I'm assuming op has windows on the C: partition

Nick

Jerichoholic

Thanks for all the swift responses. I had re-installed before, and that's where the C and D became messed up with C being the smaller drive and D being the main drive, yet windows will only save to C, which has no space left at all. I'll try these solutions later on and let you know the score.

Thanks a lot.

Jerichoholic

I have checked all boxes in the permission tab (except special permissions as it wont let me). Created an "everyone" group and did the same but no dice.

Hmmm.

mp22

Type disk management into the search bar,run the program and see if you can extend volume c.

Jerichoholic

I can save files and that to the D no hassle but the problem is it automatically saves downloads, internet cache, videos etc to the C drive. When i try to download say, Adobe to the D drive a box pops up saying i do not have enough space on the C drive.

How can I switch where it automatically downloads to? This is all I need to do really.

CptSternn

@OP

What you are seeing is the UAC. It doesn't matter who you are logged on as, when you save to certain parts of the drive the OS asks for permission.

You can go under control panel > user settings and then turn that security feature off.