Access denied afrer SYSYEM CRASH

From: Ovid Bailey (obailey@seanet.com)
Date: 04/17/03


From: "Ovid Bailey" <obailey@seanet.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:10:28 -0700


Denis,

Are you logged in as an administrator?
Are you running NTFS?
No encryption or anything fancy?

If so, if the important documents were saved under the
private user's name, you will be denied access by default,
even if you log in as an administrator.

But as an administrator, you can take ownership of those
folders, which will then give you full control over the
files and folders in Documents and Settings.

If this is NTFS, right-click on the User folder and select
properties. Click the Security tab, then Advanced/ Owner,
select your admin account, check the box that says Replace
owner..., and click OK.

If you don't see a security tab, you are either not using
NTFS or have Simple File Sharing enabled.

>-----Original Message-----
>Please help ASAP!
>
>I have an emergency! My Win xp crashed and since I had
>two users, one private, after the crash I am unable to
>salvge (open) c:>documents and settings/USER.
>All I get is access denied and I have VERY important
>documents inside!
>What Can I DO?
>Please HELP ME!
>Please send answeres to e-mail divankov@acmt.hr
>.
>



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