Annoying windows 7

[unknowngiver]

Hey
my dads old laptop stopped working so he told me to backup his files for him to his new windows 7 laptop. I took out the old hard drive and plugged it into the new laptop and tried copy pasting the files.However it turns out windows 7 is an annoying piece of shit. I run linux on my computer so I never have to deal with this crap!

I wonder if anyone know how to get around this?

Basically It wont let me copy the files directly, it says that I need admin rights, "click continue" button appears, then it says something about going to "security tab" and then manually assigning the ownership to the logged in user.

NOTE that I am the only administrator/account on that laptop!!

On vista there was an option to completely turn off UAC but it seems 7 just has the option to hide the notifications, which doesn't help at all!!

I have about a MILLION files and folders to copy, and I cant manually assign ownership to each and every one of them like that!!

 

[GrowStats]

that DEFINITELY is a problem. I'm no savvy/techie, but I would suggest you go to a tech support shop or to that store where your dad bought the computer. I think the technicians there can help you with your problem. I would advice you not to carelessly tinker with W7 settings since these are quite similar, yet very different with Linux or even older versions of windows' settings. i say let the professionals handle this, just to be safe.