Re: lost secured folder in different partition after reinstallation

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 12/30/02


From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:18:27 +0100

Tom Vanacker wrote:

> My hard drive is devided in 5 ntfs partitions. C is a boot partition and D
> contains my documents. For security reasons I made some folders private
> folders, so no other users of the computer could see the documents.After
> severe system defects I decided to format c: and reinstalled windows XP.After
> succesful installation i could use al my documents in the other partitions,
> but I have no acces to those private folders even not in DOS prompt.I used the
> same username and password to login to windows, but unfortunatelly it makes no
> difference. Can anyone tell me how to recover these documents?

Hi

You need to take ownership of the folders and files:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI
Porsgrunn Norway


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