I recently got a new computer. Because my current computer is kind of faulty, I took the fastest and least painful route to getting the 840+ GB of data on it to an external hard drive to bring to this new machine. I took a program called "Macrium Reflect" and straight cloned my internal HDD to the passport plugged into a USB port.
So my hard drive is cloned now. But I don't want to use it as a boot drive, the other machine should be fine enough to handle a copy operation. My issue is that NTFS permissions have bricked the other machine's ability to access the drive, and there are absolute loads of symlinks pointing to locations on my C: drive, or in the case of documents and settings, absolutely stupid loops for takeown.
I want this drive to be perfectly accessible by the other computer. Meaning I want the symlinks that come with my user folder to go away, obviously without deleting the original content, and I want documents and settings to be gone. I tried using takeown to give myself ownership of the entire drive, and this happened.
INFO: The system cannot find the path specified. ( "F:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\ApplicationData\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData\S-1-5-18"
I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to break quite that hard. I tried deleting the symlinks, but it acts like it deleted them and they don't actually go away. Command line can't even find them. Anything I can do?
Information:
All drives in use here are terabyte drives, the external is a Western Digital My Passport. The operating systems involved are Windows 10 version 1709, (Fall Creators Update). The drive is absolutely packed with files, like 3 gigabytes of midi files only and 250+ more of sound effects and music etc, so recursive operations tend to take forever.
If it matters, I am a blind user, so screenshots and such won't be helpful, and I cannot see whatever icons they put on controls in GUIs. Just tell me what to press and my screen reader should be able to find it. I can use command line if we have to go that route.