Copied Steam to a different drive, now needs admin permissions every time

[battles_atlas]

I recently ran out of space on the SSD I had windows installed on. Almost everything else I had on a HDD. I cloned the SSD using Acronis, and swapped them over. On the new larger SSD I decided to install Steam as well, so I copied that across from the HDD. Everything seemed to be ok, but I've noticed that Steam can't download updates, and if I tried to launch a game I get a "read write error". I tried following advice on the Steam forums and deleted everything except the games files and the steam.exe, and redownloaded the rest. Same problem. Only solution is to start Steam as admin every time. This is really annoying as it also means I have input passwords again. Note, I am the admin account on the computer, so this shouldnt be happening.

Also I notice that starting it today it seemed to download the same 3 updates as yesterday, as if even though its now saying its installing stuff, its not. The games do run once updated though.

Does anyone have any advice on this, beyond deleting and reinstalling from scratch?

[spoof]

I had to fiddle with this no good memory of it :P
I think this

Right click on your drive

Click on properties

Click on security tab

Click on the "advanced" button

Go to the "Owner" tab, click "edit"

Now make sure your name is in the list of "Change owner to" and now make sure the "Replace owner in subcontainers and objects" is checked and now click on "apply".
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/34383-63-apply-inherited-permissions-entire-ntfs-disk-windows

edit: sweet , if I do not remember it is usually that easy.

[battles_atlas]

You sir are a legend. That seems to have fixed it. Thank you.

[battles_atlas]

OK... seems that didn't work. I have full permissions on steam, but when I run it I still get the password prompt every time, and games can't update and give a read write error if I try and launch them. Only thing that works is changing the compatibility to always run as administrator. This makes no sense as I've given my user account full rights! Anyone have any suggestions?