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photostaats - 30 Sep 2004 13:37 GMT

...anyone have any ideas on how to save (or at least retrieve) data from an
NTFS partition corrupted during a partition magic 8.01 session? had a
problem, thanks to a nearby lightning strike, during a conversion process,
and while i have been able to save and move the data from one of the other
partitions affected, this one seems to be inaccessable. i would greatly
appreciate any and all suggestions.

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Carey Frisch [MVP] - 30 Sep 2004 13:48 GMT

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

"Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881&Product=winxp

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| ...anyone have any ideas on how to save (or at least retrieve) data from an
| NTFS partition corrupted during a partition magic 8.01 session? had a
| problem, thanks to a nearby lightning strike, during a conversion process,
| and while i have been able to save and move the data from one of the other
| partitions affected, this one seems to be inaccessable. i would greatly
| appreciate any and all suggestions.

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photostaats - 30 Sep 2004 18:33 GMT

thank you, cary, but i don't think that the problem has to do with security
settings... i am getting a "corrupted master file table" warning (which
partition magic has labeled a 'critical' warning) which i think is preventing
access to the partition/drive. the other partitions function, and are error
free, but i think that the surge (as opposed to outage) may have taken place
when the partition was being written to... but, i will try the remedies
suggested, and thank you for your time and knowledge!

> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp
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> | partitions affected, this one seems to be inaccessable. i would greatly
> | appreciate any and all suggestions.

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