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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / August 2006NTFS file permission
Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries, I have 3 questions: Recently I installed Windows Vista, like most of us. I didn't had the upgrade option, so I did a full install. After installing I realized I had a folder/files on an external Disk Drive, with NTFS file Permission. Result is I cannot acces the folder/files anymore. I tried to take ownership, which I'm not permitted to. I can retrieve the files, after some intense work, so I prefer keeping them, but I wouldn't care a lot losing them, so I tried to delete them. I don't have sufficient permissions for this, neither. The files are occupying a 28 GB (more or less, windows says the folder's empty which it's not), so that's kind of space I'd like to recover. I still remeber login and password, so, is there anyway I can recover/delete these files, without formatting). (1) I know there's a difference between User (administrator) and Administrator, I don't know how to log-on as the latter (how? 2), and does it make a difference to my kind of problem? (3) thank in advance, Christophe PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help me any further. Which remains is (1). Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID. I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or another to acces my files. But how? you could just put the drive into a computer running XP, if you need a quick solution, but it would be nice to have a way to do it in vista. RossB > PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help > me any further. Which remains is (1). > Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID. > I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or > another to acces my files. But how? The password is encrypted and stored in the registry and it has to match the password you provide. If you can't reproduce the old registry entry there is no match. bob > PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help > me any further. Which remains is (1). > Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID. > I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or > another to acces my files. But how? Hello, I believe I have the same problem in that I partitioned my harddrive so I could dual boot into vista or xp. I now cannot access anything from the xp partition while in vista, and cannot even view the vista partition while in xp. Is there currently no realistic way to enable access to my xp partition while in vista? > Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > thank in advance, > Christophe As with previous posts, again this is probably a local admin problem... Technically no one is really a true administrator until all prompts and user securitys are disabled in the security settings panel... (start/run/secpol.msc/local policies/security options/scroll to bottom) and then going into control panel and changing you account to an admistrator manually. I initially thought i was an admin but your really only a local admin by default. Go figure! Plus it gets rid of all those annoying pop up warnings. > Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > thank in advance, > Christophe Try running as a member of Backup Operators. That should give some access reguardless of NTFS permissions. > Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > thank in advance, > Christophe |
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