Re: Newbie

From: Bill (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 04:50:17 -0700

Steve - thanks!! Taking ownership worked
>-----Original Message-----
>Assuming you are able to boot into the operating system,
logon as an administrator
>and right click the folder and select properties. Select
security and then give
>yourself or administrators full control making sure there
are no deny permissions
>enabled for administrators, users, or everyone. If you
can not change permissions,
>you may need to take ownership first. To do that select
the advanced box of the
>security page, then ownership and grant ownership to the
administrators group. Once
>you have ownership, you should be able to grant yourself
full permissions. --- Steve
>
>
>"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:014801c46dd0$e5642ff0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Thanks in advance for any help - new to this forum.
>>
>> Lost access to my root drive (C:\)and related files.
>>
>> Double clicking on My Computer then Local Disk (C:)
>> produces the dialog box "C:\ is not accessible Access is
>> denied".
>>
>> Sure I'm missing a vital piece of information in my
>> description but is this enough to get started?
>>
>>
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