Re: problems with lost permissions
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Date: 07/12/03
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:50:18 -0700
On 11 Jul 2003 11:03:31 -0700, schreiber@genista.de (Kai Schreiber)
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a rather peculiar problem with lost permissions on a Win2K
>standalone machine. Being logged in as an Admin, the user has removed
>all access rights for c:\, including his own, Everyone's and System's.
>
>Now when we try to add a User to the empty user list, we get "unable
>to display the user selection dialog (null)" as an error message.
>Access to c:\ is completely blocked, but all subfolders are accessible
>(curiously it's not possible to copy any files out of them, though. I
>suppose copying out of subfolders requires access to root).
>
>We tried installing a second copy of Win2K in parallel, to see if that
>would fix the problem. This was a bad idea, since setup was not only
>unable to install ntldr in root, due to having no rights, but also
>apparently removed the copy of ntldr that was there. How it did that
>while being unable to write or read the folder is anyone's guess.
>
>Now the system won't boot at all. We have gotten his data off in
>another NT system, using Winzip to read the files out of the
>subfolders and copy them into an archive (since copying them still
>doesn't work).
>
>Is there any way to restore the rights to access root and copy ntldr
>back to where it belongs (except format/reinstall).
>
>Thanks a lot for any helpful comments,
>Kai
Stick the drive into another computer and change the permissions back.
Or use a partition tool to convert it to FAT which will remove all
permissions.
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