Re: PLEASE HELP! Problem with permissions and security

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:57:58 +0000

Don wrote:

>Thanks for your come back. I've tried Safe Mode, but apparently the
>SYSTEM can't get to any of the files it needs, as it just reboots
>itself. I'm thinking I'm going to have to use an emergency boot CD.
>Do you think I could then somehow change the permissions, so that I
>could subsequently do a Normal Boot?

Try booting to Safe Mode - take administrator and see if it will boot.
If it does, r-click drive C in My Computer, Properties, Security, select
SYSTEM and give it Full Control. (And to your regular admin account).

Next try would be booting Safe Mode - Command Prompt, and from that
running
C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
which is the system restore GUI - but I don't think it would help if,as
it appears, this is a matter of the permissions recorded in the NTFS
file system itself. System restore will not affect those. 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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