Re: Desperately needing HELP please, please, please......

From: James Bradley (jimmyb88@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/06/02 

From: "James Bradley" <jimmyb88@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:54:12 -0000

Hi Kirsty this is a solution I found that worked for me.
One thing though, if you dont see the security tab in properties of the
folder then you must highlight the folder, then click on tools>folder
options.
Then under view tab you must untick "use simple file sharing", then whats
written below will work. Thank god for that :)

You should be able to access your folder by logging in as the Administrator.
. at the login prompt type ctrl-alt-del twice, which will give you the
standard login prompt, from which you can log in as the Administrator
(depending on how you set up your computer, you may or may not have to type
a password there). Once you are logged in, you may first have to take
ownership of the folder: If you still cannot get access to the files in that
folder, then right-click on the folder in question, click on Properties, go
to the Security tab, and click on the Advanced button; when there, click on
the Owner tab and change the owner to Administrator. At this point you
should be able to do whatever you want with those files (like changing
permissions to give access to the user you want to access these files as).

"kirstie" <kirstie_b@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.187c266a4d4dc65b989680@news.claranews.com...
> Hi
> This is my first post on this newsgroup and it's a plea for urgent help.
> If I explain what I have done maybe some kind person will help me fix
> it, if possible.
>
> I have a laptop with Windows XP Pro on it which I use at Uni for all my
> work. 2 days ago I installed some file security program that seemed to
> mess up my system - I think it tried to install a .sys driver file.
>
> Before I installed this I created a System Restore Point (as I always
> do), which I thought I could always roll-back to if things went wrong
> (which they did!) So because this program messed-up I performed a System
> Restore to the point before (it said) I installed it.
>
> When I rebooted, I found that at the login screen (the local one not the
> domain one) I could not use either the keyboard or mouse - neither would
> do a thing.
>
> So I was stuck :( I asked a few people what to do and they suggested I
> try to 'repair' windows - First I tried all the safe modes - nothing
> worked as the keyboard or mouse still were stuck.
>
> Then using the original install CD, I tried the repair function, but it
> only repaired the system using the last system restore point (grrrr
> which doesn't seem to work) but it did confirm it had done it and
> informed me I could restore an earlier one, etc, BUT again the keyboard
> or mouse wouldn't work so I couldn't continue :(
>
> Someone said 'do a new install, but change the drive & location of
> Windows' So i did this - installed XP on the second drive [partition]
> and it does work BUT now I cannot access my original user area [c:
> \documents and settings> kirstie] on the C: drive! I can access All
> Users and Administrator there but not MY own files *crys*
>
> I can SEE my old user area in explorer but if I click it it says '...is
> not accessible. Access is denied' but I am logged-on as administrator on
> this laptop :( It also says [in properties] for this area ' 0 bytes, 0
> files and folders' but I had loads of stuff in there and I have not
> deleted any of them.
>
> PLEASE, please, if anyone knows any method at all to get this work back
> [2 years of Uni work and all my e-mails and contacts] please respond to
> me here or I can supply a usable e-mail address if someone is genuine.
> Thanks
> Kirstie *on her knees, begging*
>
> x-posted to
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin