Help with newly built PC

[Chaingun74]

Hey, all!

 

My name is Aidan and today I built my very first system! It went off without a hitch and my only problem comes now. I put an older HDD into my case along with a new SSD. My problem is... When I go into the user folders to get documents and pictures it takes forever to "unlock" and eventually just freezes. Is there any way to unlock the whole drive at once so I can go about my business before wiping the blasted thing? All help is greatly appreciated!

 

Kind Regards

Aidan Ferguson

[rustikles]

Hey, all!

 

My name is Aidan and today I built my very first system! It went off without a hitch and my only problem comes now. I put an older HDD into my case along with a new SSD. My problem is... When I go into the user folders to get documents and pictures it takes forever to "unlock" and eventually just freezes. Is there any way to unlock the whole drive at once so I can go about my business before wiping the blasted thing? All help is greatly appreciated!

 

Kind Regards

Aidan Ferguson

What SSD are you using? In most cases they come with software for automatically transferring data from an old drive.

[Chaingun74]

What SSD are you using? In most cases they come with software for automatically transferring data from an old drive.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDSSDP-064G-G25-64GB-SATA-Internal/dp/B007ZWLRSU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1375391876&sr=8-4&keywords=ssd

[rustikles]

So what do you mean by "unlock" the folder? Is this not just a copy/paste situation for all your documents and media?

[Chaingun74]

No. When I try to access user accounts it needs to unlock the accounts so that I can gain access. This does not happen, however, I left it to do it's thing for several hours and it was stuck in the same place for about two hours and fifty-five minutes of that.

[rustikles]

No. When I try to access user accounts it needs to unlock the accounts so that I can gain access. This does not happen, however, I left it to do it's thing for several hours and it was stuck in the same place for about two hours and fifty-five minutes of that.

Ahhh, can you not sign in as those users separately then?

[Chaingun74]

As it is a secondary drive the user accounts do not actually exist. The problem is having to wait for each one to be unlocked. If I could just unlock all the locked files quickly  or if not that then at least all at once.

[rustikles]

As it is a secondary drive the user accounts do not actually exist. The problem is having to wait for each one to be unlocked. If I could just unlock all the locked files quickly  or if not that then at least all at once.

To my knowledge, there isn't a way to do that all at once. Windows has security measures in place for each user account separately.

[Chaingun74]

That is certainly a shame... Is there any way to speed up the process?

[WoodenMarker]

As it is a secondary drive the user accounts do not actually exist. The problem is having to wait for each one to be unlocked. If I could just unlock all the locked files quickly  or if not that then at least all at once.

Shouldn't you have already backed up up your files, THEN have set your primary boot drive to your ssd and then transferred your files over?

[bartekxx12]

I am not sure but I believe an alternate file explorer will get around that security block. Try something like Free Commander http://www.freecommander.com/

Otherwise, and this I am sure of, you can use any live distribution of Linux. Linux will not even see any limitations put on by Windows and will treat the locked folders as ... normal folders. 

Use something like Linux Mint, either burn it do a disk or create a bootable USB with it. 

[Gecko]

Take ownership of the drive!

[calarahil]

I'm not sure I have this correct but what it seems like you want to do is have your user files set on your HDD and not your SSD and just the OS on the SSD.

[Cryptonite]

Hey, all!

 

My name is Aidan and today I built my very first system! It went off without a hitch and my only problem comes now. I put an older HDD into my case along with a new SSD. My problem is... When I go into the user folders to get documents and pictures it takes forever to "unlock" and eventually just freezes. Is there any way to unlock the whole drive at once so I can go about my business before wiping the blasted thing? All help is greatly appreciated!

 

Kind Regards

Aidan Ferguson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlocker

http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/

 

official site: http://emptyloop.com/unlocker/

direct download link: http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/Unlocker1.9.2.exe

 

if you need help PM me.