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Posted by rc on October 8, 2006, 12:55 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options Many thanks for your help. I have now recovered all my files (I've also
backed them up now!)
Richard
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> | My Windows 2000 Pro system recently died, and, of course, my backups
> were
> | not completely up to date.
> |
> | I can get to most of the files by adding the disk (NTFS) as a slave on
> | another machine, but one folder is protected with full control granted
> to my
> | user account and no other access. Perhaps not surprisingly access is
> denied
> | by the new (XP) machine.
> |
> | I cannot boot from the disk on the other machine (even when it is the
> only
> | disk on the machine), nor does my WIN2K install CD seem interested in
> | repairing Windows to allow some sort of start, even in safe mode.
> |
> | Any ideas, or should I just say goodbye to those files?
> |
> | Thanks
> | Richard
> |
>
> You have to take Ownership of the full drive due to the change od SIDs
> when the OS was
> re-generated.
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> This has NOTHING to do with WinXP, per se. It has to do with Security
> Identifiers and NTFS.
> Whe you re-created a OS the OS used a new SID which doesn't match those
> used on the old
> NTFS partition thus denying access. That why you need to take ownership
> as the
> "administrator".
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
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