Problems accessing and copying my W7's "Backup and Restore"'s createdsystem images...

After doing a 64-bit W7's "Backup and Restore"'s create a system image
to another drive of my system drives in the same physical drive, the
updated 64-bit Windows 7's Explorer's Catalog prompt always say "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to
permanently to get access to this folder." Why do I have to do this
every time? Also, if I copy this folder to another drive, keeps to goes
in a loop to recopy again. Why? I see this behavior on multiple
machines. All drives were in NTFS.

Thank you in advance.
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After doing a 64-bit W7's "Backup and Restore"'s create a system image
to another drive of my system drives in the same physical drive, the
updated 64-bit Windows 7's Explorer's Catalog prompt always say "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to
permanently to get access to this folder." Why do I have to do this
every time? Also, if I copy this folder to another drive, keeps to goes
in a loop to recopy again. Why? I see this behavior on multiple
machines. All drives were in NTFS.

Thank you in advance.

It's just a security thing, methinks.

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Ant wrote:
After doing a 64-bit W7's "Backup and Restore"'s create a system image
to another drive of my system drives in the same physical drive, the
updated 64-bit Windows 7's Explorer's Catalog prompt always say "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to
permanently to get access to this folder." Why do I have to do this
every time? Also, if I copy this folder to another drive, keeps to goes
in a loop to recopy again. Why? I see this behavior on multiple
machines. All drives were in NTFS.

Thank you in advance.

Haven't you added a right-click TakeOwn option
to your menu yet ?

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-shortcut.html

Note, do *not* apply that to the entire C: drive.
This is for isolated work, preferably in areas where
the OS doesn't normally play. Not for C:\Windows\System32.

It's not intended to turn your OS into Windows 98.
But for the example you quote, you can smash the
permissions on that folder, if you want to get
at the VHD files inside.

I used to rename those folders at one time, as
a means to keep more than one backup image of the
whole setup. Once I got Macrium, I moved on from
doing this. Macrium was more flexible, than messing
with that folder all the time.

The folder is protected, so "John" cannot look at
the files of "Mary". When the backup is made, either
the user must belong to the Administrator group or
to the Backup group. These are power-users, who
can look at the files of John or Mary. Later, if
Ant wants to poke in there, we don't want Ant to be
looking at the files of John or Mary. So the folders
have appropriate protections to prevent snooping. If
you belong to the Administrators group, and you use
TakeOwn, the problem is solved (maybe).

Good luck,
Paul

Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
After doing a 64-bit W7's "Backup and Restore"'s create a system image
to another drive of my system drives in the same physical drive, the
updated 64-bit Windows 7's Explorer's Catalog prompt always say "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to
permanently to get access to this folder." Why do I have to do this
every time? Also, if I copy this folder to another drive, keeps to goes
in a loop to recopy again. Why? I see this behavior on multiple
machines. All drives were in NTFS.

Thank you in advance.

Haven't you added a right-click TakeOwn option
to your menu yet ?

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-shortcut.html

Thanks Paul. Ah, a .reg file. I found another answer to do it, but
manually and seems similiar with the automated method/trick from
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-450990832ff0
.... Bascially in my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1's administrator level account with
its instructions:

1. Make D:\WindowsImageBackup\ (where system images are saved)
accessible to EVERYONE with full controls which is required in Windows'
Explorer. This will only set the first folder/directory accessible, but
its sub(folder/diretories) and files still have access issues.

2. Open an elevated command prompt (cmd.exe) with "run as
administrator".

3. Type these commands and press Enter after each:
takeown /F D:\WindowsImageBackup\ /R
cacls D:\WindowsImageBackup\*.* /T /G everyone:F
(reply "Yes" when prompted)


Now, I can easily access them. Sheesh, MS sure made things harder for
power users.
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Ant wrote:
Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
After doing a 64-bit W7's "Backup and Restore"'s create a system image
to another drive of my system drives in the same physical drive, the
updated 64-bit Windows 7's Explorer's Catalog prompt always say "You
don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to
permanently to get access to this folder." Why do I have to do this
every time? Also, if I copy this folder to another drive, keeps to goes
in a loop to recopy again. Why? I see this behavior on multiple
machines. All drives were in NTFS.

Thank you in advance.

Haven't you added a right-click TakeOwn option
to your menu yet ?

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-shortcut.html

Thanks Paul. Ah, a .reg file. I found another answer to do it, but
manually and seems similiar with the automated method/trick from
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-450990832ff0
... Bascially in my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1's administrator level account with
its instructions:

1. Make D:\WindowsImageBackup\ (where system images are saved)
accessible to EVERYONE with full controls which is required in Windows'
Explorer. This will only set the first folder/directory accessible, but
its sub(folder/diretories) and files still have access issues.

2. Open an elevated command prompt (cmd.exe) with "run as
administrator".

3. Type these commands and press Enter after each:
takeown /F D:\WindowsImageBackup\ /R
cacls D:\WindowsImageBackup\*.* /T /G everyone:F
(reply "Yes" when prompted)


Now, I can easily access them. Sheesh, MS sure made things harder for
power users.

The .reg, you right click the .reg file and select Merge.

If you download both a .reg to turn it on, and a .reg to
turn it off, then you can remove it later if you don't like
it.

Both methods use the same kind of commands. You should
be able to use Notepad on the .reg and see those same kind
of commands.

It's a security setting, so you cannot peek in the home
directory of John or Mary (unless you're the Administrator).
If you have access to the .vhd files, you could use a
modern copy of 7ZIP to inspect the contents. That's one of the
many ways to do random access, if you need a file out of there.

Paul