Pulled HDD from an Old Rig and...

[mealto]

So I moved a few older HDD's from a rig and inserted into a new Win 10 machine. Windows has no problem reading all the files and it and can write as well. But when I click on Simple Sharing, I can see the folder(s) are not shared but it has an Unknown Owner listed. May be from the last machine. How do I get rid of this?

[Sankster]

tried taking ownership?

[mad dudy]

right click the user and hit remove. i'm on windows 7 but should be the same.

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, mealto said:

So I moved a few older HDD's from a rig and inserted into a new Win 10 machine. Windows has no problem reading all the files and it and can write as well. But when I click on Simple Sharing, I can see the folder(s) are not shared but it has an Unknown Owner listed. May be from the last machine. How do I get rid of this?

In the back-end of Windows, everything has a generated unique number, which is called GUID (Global Unique Identifier) OR SID (security identifier). It is a series of number and/or letter like this: {51356712-3E7F-49CA-B8FA-942F59CD3D4B} (GUID) or like this: S-1-5-21-1550579125-857785018-4563923411-1884 This is a great way to avoid conflicts. This is how Windows can understand if you have 2 accounts with the same name, or 2 or more XBox controllers connected to the PC, or 2 or more identical monitor. Windows doesn't see "XBox 360 Controller", it sees: "{DEB039CC-B704-4F53-B43E-9DD4432FA2E9}" (example, that number is different). The name that you see is just for you, to make things easy to understand.

 

SIDs are like GUID, but without letters (expect for the "S") pretty much but unlike a GUID which is totally random set of numbers/letter, SID has a certain meaning.

 

Anyway, all to say, everything is a random like number.

 

So, in your case, you have files/folders with permissions set to it, where the account which Windows sees a SID, but doesn't have a name associated to it from YOUR actively used Windows (To be exact, it looks at your SAM registry. The hidden registry file that contains all account information of your Win10).

 

In other words, it has something like this:

{S-1-5-21-213460762-1010228474-2165127370-500} - Administrator

{S-1-5-21-213460762-1010228474-2165127370-501} - Everyone

{S-1-5-21-213460762-1010228474-2165127370-1007} - mealto

 

Every SIDs are linked to a name. That is on your Win10 that you are using now.

But now it encounters: {S-1-5-21-1251254568-1117774441-7894001212-1004}, which is, for example, your account named 'mealto' on the Windows that is on that HDD, because that is what it sees on that file/folder . But all it knows is the table that Windows uses now.. so looks at it, and goes "Hey! I don't see {S-1-5-21-1251254568-1117774441-7894001212-1004} anywhere on that list!". So it can't show you a name.

[mealto]

There is no read or write assigned to that Unknown owner and I cannot remove it. 

 

Maybe be I should try and take ownership of the entire drive letter?