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Message: [QUOTE="Holmes, post: 13666677"] My security permissions appear to be screwed after re-installing Windows XP Home. In connection with the clean install, I deleted two user accounts for which I manually copied their files to a second hard drive. Now I notice that the owner for many files is "Unknown" or has what I believe is an SID. How do I best clean this up? 1) (a) Is it best to set the owner to "Administrators Group" at a high level on the drive and ensure I select "Replace owner on subcontainers and object" to let the change trickle down? (b) Is this better than assigning the actual original owner which might be a limited user? (c) Is it safe to remove all the Unknown users (i.e. SID) showing in the security permissions? 2) For allowing users access to the second hard drive (D: drive) where I have "My Documents", is it better to provide full control to "Authenticated Users" instead of "Users" Group? Or is there a group that is even more secure? Of course, for each users' "My Documents" folder I will provide access only to each individual user. 3) I notice my external hard drive has the root and the complete drive with full control to "Everybody". Is this insecure or must it be this way on an external drive since it can be hooked up to any computer? Thanks for any help. [/QUOTE]