Re: FATAL STOP - ALL permissions for Drive C were changed to DENY

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nscomcast.net)
Date: 11/20/03


Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:26:09 GMT

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can repair the problem from the
recovery console. You would need to be able to run secedit or calcs, but I
don't think those are available in recovery console. You are probably going
to have to reinstall. However, you can do that by booting from install cdrom
and then installing into the existing \winnt folder [which will be detected
during install process] without formatting. At least that should leave your
data intact unless you had any EFS encrypted files that would not be
recoverable by normal means unless you had a backup of your EFS
certificate/private key. After reinstalling, you would need to reinstall
aplications on top of themselves and reapply service pack and critical
updates from Windows Update. You would have a new user profile created, but
your old one would still be available under documents and settings folder
where you could retrieve files such as emails and my documents. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229716

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07b201c3af0a$40763bd0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Dear Experts,
>
> I am a novice user. What I did was DUMB (right after I
> hit enter I knew I had screwed up).
>
> I have a 3 computer lan at home running Windows 2000. On
> laptop #1 I logged onto the C: drive of laptop #2. I
> clicked on properties of Drive C: and changed the security
> settings. I set EVERYONE to DENY. There were NO other
> permissions. I then closed the window.
>
> A little later I tried to re-boot laptop #2. I am
> unable to boot and get the blue screen and Fatal Error
> message.
>
> I have tried to repair Windows 2000 with the W2000 CD
> using the Emergency Repair process. I chose the automatic
> mode. Now, I get an "NTLDR is missing" error when trying
> to boot from the hard drive.
>
> None of this works.
>
> I am able to access the Recovery Console but don't know
> what to do.
>
> Please HELP!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tom
>
> PS I assume I can reinstall Win 2000 to resolve the
> problem....but there has to be a better way.



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