Re: Chkdsk in Vista 32-bit SP1 is corrupting security descriptors

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I had the same horror experience last night. I was building a new larger
dual-boot drive and had attached the original dual-boot SATA drive
externally via 2xUSB. I performed a READ access to the original VISTA
SP1 drive which requested Administrator permissions and I think this
caused the problem. On rebooting CHKDSK started automatically. I
reinserted the original drive and let CHKDSK run to completion. Now only
XP boots (on the original drive), VISTA no longer displays the login
screen!!!

To be fair I must add that I had also installed Paragon Partition
Manager 9.0 Personal, however I only started it as a test - I did NOT
execute any command. Logically speaking, either Paragon makes changes
without warning - or - the problem was caused by VISTA accessing another
VISTA partition mounted as an external drive (which I tend to believe as
it had a security access issue).

Now I am left in a real mess... and must complete the new disk rebuild
a.s.a.p.

Best regards,
Andrew Bauer (ex DEC, ex Compaq, ex Hewlett-Packard)


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