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I have a hard drive enclosure that contains a hard drive which I took from my old Windows laptop. On Ubuntu, I can access all the user folders and everything else with no need for any sort of taking ownership etc. On windows, I have to enter an administrator login and wait several minutes.
Is there some way to remove these encryptions/security options from ubuntu for ease of access on Windows?
I basically want to make it into a normal hard drive but keep my old data.
You should be able to take ownership of the all folders and files on the drive, and give ownership to the User usergroup, this means the UAC prompt won't be displayed unless you attempt to access a protected directory. Encryption of the drive can be removed if you have the passphrase and/or certificate depending if you are talking about EFS or FDS. – Ramhound – 2017-02-10T17:49:43.543