Re: Can someone beam Bill Gates...

From: Mike Brannigan [MS] (mikebran@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

From: "Mike Brannigan [MS]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:08:36 +0100

Are you saying that after a clean install of Windows XP to an hard disk that
had an exiting NTFS file system and existing files and folders- and then by
logging on as the new Administrator account you are unable to "take
ownership" of files and folders and once ownership has been changed then
change the ACLs on those file and folders ?? 

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"Subzero" <subzeronyc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> and tell him what grief this XP ownership/permissions crap is giving us.
At
> least in Win2000 Pro, you could strip the folders of any permissions and
> regain access to your files.  I see I'm not the only one who has lost
> critical documents/files because of this trying to take ownership after a
> clean installation of WinXP Pro.  The last time was after I upgraded the
> mobo and processor.  I was lazy in my backup though, so I *guess* I'm
partly
> to blame.  I normally back up all files in My Docs by copying them to a
> separate HD, but this time I just copied the Documents and Settings folder
> to that drive and voila: access denied!
>
> There must be some way to delete the references to the security profiles
> attached to these troublesome folders that are denying access, as it seems
> the bottom line is that these profiles think that the files are attached
to
> some user.  If that could be eliminated then ALL users should be able to
> access the files.
>
> I set the permissions, inheritances, etc and no matter what I can't open
any
> of those files, even though the admin, all users have permission and the
> admin owns the folder.  Even tried to drag the files to the shared folder,
> as well as copy to the desktop.  Access still denied.
>
> Gates has some great ideas, but when it comes to glitches MS is the KING
> with major headaches like this crap.
>
>