Odd permissions on secondary harddrive in Win2008 R2

Question

On my laptop I have a 250gb hd that's separated up in 2 drives:

C: which is 64gb D: which is the rest.

I'm logging on my laptop as a domain user which is administrator on the laptop. However, when I want to save files through my browser on the D: drive i always receive an access denied. Same thing when I want to attach a vhd in hyper v that's on the D: drive. Also access denied. However no problems at all when using the C: drives.

So there is something weird going on, on that D: drive. Because I can move files to the D: drive using explorer just fine.

Any recommendations as what to do to make it use the exact same permissions as on the C: drive... This behavior was not present in Win7 or Vista and is something new to win2008 r2.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

It's possible that by upgrading, the old owning user was not well converted to the new Windows version, therefore D: is owned by a phantom user.

The first step is to take ownership of D.
Start a Command Prompt box (cmd) using Run as Administrator, and enter:

takeown /r D:

(Use takeown /? for all options)

Then to give yourself full rights on the file:

cacls D: /t /e /G username:F

cacls can be used with wildcards and directory traversal. See:
Security from the command line with CACLS.

For a more evolved Visual Basic script see:
Xcacls.vbs to modify NTFS permissions.

Answer 2

I would guess that you don't have full control over the D: drive for your username. I don't know for sure, but 2008 may be more heavily locked down than Win7 or Vista.

It also could specifically be that the browser is running as more limited than administrator. Try to "run as" the browser as the Administrator account if you have access, or your account if you don't.