Get Ownership of / Access To Files

GetOwernship.bat

:: Recursively take ownership of all files under a folder, and amend their access to grant full ownership to admins.

takeown /R /A /D Y /F c:\temp\path
:: /R = Recursive
:: /A = Ownership to Admins
:: /D Y = answer Yes to any questions (/D N would answer No)
:: /F c:\temp\path = which path to run the command against

icacls c:\temp\path /grant Administrators:F /T /C
:: c:\temp\path The path to run the command against
:: /grant Administrators:F = Grant Full permissions to Administrators group
:: /T = Recursive
:: /C = Continue on error

robocopy /MIR /Z /W:1 /R:1 c:\temp\path\source c:\temp\path\dest
:: for my scenario, I was copying contents from old HDDs to long term storage, so after getting access to 
:: all files on the target drive, I used robocopy to sync the contents over
:: (here I used mirror, which would sync any future changes to the source too; redundant in my use case, but often a useful script)