Re: 'Access Denied' In Recovery Console

From: B (johnson_robert@planet.nl)
Date: 01/03/03 

From: "B" <johnson_robert@planet.nl>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:49:41 +0100

Your best bet I believe to fix this will be a repair install of XP. Boot the
windows XP cd and when you choose to install one of the options given to you
is repair, so try this first.

Details are at this MVP website:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

regards

B
"Neil Cameron" <ncameron@msn.com> wrote in message
news:av3ri3$u3k$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I'm really screwed here.
> Ad-Aware blew my Registry away. XP will not boot - gave an error on
> \Windows\System32\Config\System. I tried to recover using Microsoft
> KB307545 but the system will not boot into any XP mode successfully to
> complete the procedure; even safe mode. Then I started to get disk errors
> that CHKDSK said it couldn't fix.
> I've accepted (reluctantly) that I need to re-format and re-install; BUT,
I
> really need to copy my Outlook.pst file (it has all my software
registration
> keys in it) and some photos only stored on C:.
> I have booted from the XP Setup CD to the Recovery Console, but it will
not
> let me change directory to either "Documents and Settings" or "My
> Documents" - I get 'Access is Denied' - even though I am logged into the
> Console as Administrator and the directories are NOT encrypted.
>
> Any help gratefully received!
>
> --
> Neil Cameron
>
>

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