Can't Change Permissions on Windows Drive- Have tried Many Solutions

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PaulBeaulieu1

Windows 10 Pro v.10.0.17134 Build 17134

Last week I noticed one of my internal hard drives was not accessible. I tried changing permissions back to administrators to no avail. I get access denied.



To change permissions, I right-click--> properties--> Security --> Advanced-->. I changed Owner back to administrator. checked 'replace all child object permission entries..., and checked 'replace owner on sub-containers and objects. I received the following error: Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied. I then turned off system restore except for the boot drive which is fine. I repeated these step in safe mode, and safe mode with networking. Still failed.



I then went to elevated CMD, and tried both



I also noticed that the location of my dropbox folders was moved from the problem data data drive to the boot drive, which is now almost full. I have no idea how this happened.



I noticed in the event log and in windows update their were some security updated installed the night before. I backed out the updates. I went through all this for several days. I then reinstalled the windows updates (windows installed a ton of updates, and then The permissions issue was fixed. I started to move important files to a newly formatted drive that I installed. The computer did a reboot overnight and now the permissions issue is back and on the newly installed drive. (FYI- I have two other drives installed on my pc that were not affected by any of this).



I then went to elevated CMD, and tried both:

takeown /f <drive_name> \ /R /D Y

and icals/


NOTE: I tried both of these and I think I'm typing them wrong. I need access to my D: drive (root). Any someone show me exactly how it should be typed in CMD?

Any ideas how I can fix this? Please let me know what documentation you need.

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