Re: NTFS owner problem

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:52:18 -0800

Hi Roger, yes something is funny.

The ownership was assigned to Administrator which is an
account I dont use unless there is a problem. Strange
that the power and screen saver options for that account
align to the disk powering off - like the admin power
options were taking over even though admin isnt signed in.

I have semi-rectified the problem since my original
post. Using a different computer I plugged in the disk
and the drive is set for permissions to me and to all
administrators of which I am one.. Therefore I was able
to change the permissions. BUT I can only see the drive
when I plug it back into my pc by setting "everyone" up
with access. It is as if the drive is not setting the
owner details or ignoring them.

Still cant see the drive as admin or owner on my pc
without setting aceess for "everyone". grrrrrrrr
STILL NEED HELP!

>-----Original Message-----
>It sounds as though you have two issues here.
>One is a hardware issue. For some reason the drive is
>being powered down even though it is not inactive.
>Is the BIOS used by the motherboard the most up-to-date?
>The other is setting permissions for your new account.
>This second issue can be easily resolved once the drive
>is reliable at a hardware level.
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
>MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
>"Viki" <viki@huserve.net> wrote in message
>news:ca9701c409bc$afdb6830$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I recently had to reinstal XP pro on my Fat 32 C drive
>> but then my NTFS D drive was "going to sleep" after
about
>> 10 minutes of inactivty and I had to reboot to see it
>> again. Assuming it was a "ownership" problem as I
>> changed to my married name, I decided to reset my new
>> login as the drive owner.
>>
>> All seemed to be working fine with it scanning through
>> each folder and file and setting me as the owner, but
>> then the drive went to sleep before it finished and I
got
>> loads of write errors popping up.
>>
>> Now when I sign in with either my login or as
>> administrator the drive is not there. Even in "safe
mode"
>>
>> How do I reset the ownerships on the drive so I can see
>> it again.
>>
>> Thanks in advance Viki
>
>
>.
>

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