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

From: Tom M (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/20/03 

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:34:38 -0800

Dear Steve,

Thank you for the reply.

I am also fairly certain I do not have access to the
secedit or calcs command in the Recovery Console. They
are not listed after typing 'help' at the C:\winnt
directory. I don't know about access to other
folders...but I assume I am not able to access them either.

Yesterday, I took a few steps into the reinstallation of
Win 2000 in the recovery console. I got to one step where
I was asked if I wanted to install Windows in the existing
C:\winnt folder or a different folder. I initially chose
the existing C:\winnt folder and I received a warning
about overwriting existing programs, settings, etc.....and
I'm almost certain is said 'DATA'. Did it mean ALL the
data in my entire C: drive????

And, I wonder what would happen if I chose a NEW directory
to install Win 2000...something like C:\winnt2 ? What
would happen to my application programs and data?

As a last resort, I am willing to reinstall Win 2000....IF
all my data is recovered (I don't know what EFS encrypted
files are).

Thanks for your help.

Tom

>-----Original Message-----
>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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