Most of us using TAKEOWN or ICACLS for taking ownership from command prompt, and both of them are simple to use.

We generally use TAKEOWN or ICACLS with following switches to taking the ownership.
takeown /F “PATH” /R /D Y /A
icacls “PATH” /T /setowner Administrators

But unfortunately, TAKEOWN & ICACLS both might failed on certain scenario, as there are some undocumented limitation. We had incident where we tried to take ownership of a shared location hosted on NetApp Filer. While using TAKEOWN, we are getting following error.
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