Re: Volume Recovery

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Are you sharing/accessing the files over a network? Check the permissions on the share, disable simple file sharing to see the permissions. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040

If you are trying to access the files from a second parallel installation on the same computer or if you have mounted the disk in another computer you don't need to share the folders, just take ownership of the files and folders and grant yourself necessary permissions and you will be able to access the files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us

Using the CACLS command at a command prompt you can also grant yourself full control on the files:

cacls c:\ /t /e /g YourUserName:f

will grant full control to all the files and folders on C: to YourUserName. If there are spaces in your username your have to surround the name with quotation marks:

cacls c:\ /t /e /g "Your User Name":f

John

richardalan3 wrote:
John,

Thanks for your guidance - it is moving me in the right direction. I did the right click on Steve's folder and enabled sharing which gave access to his folders. However each individual folder is now denying access and the right click go to properties etc. does not work on these. Any more thought?

Richard

"John John" wrote:


DON'T chkdsk the volume if you want to save files on it!

Recover the files from the working Windows installation or mount the disk in another computer. To access the files and folders take ownership of them, look in the help files for "ownership".

John

richardalan3 wrote:


When I tried using the the recovery CD and chose R to repair I got a blue screen.
See my note as well - Drive letters have now changed.


"Sampathn" wrote:



Did you try with recovery console?

Go to recovery console, select your previous installation and try to use these tools,

Fixmbr :- will write HDD MBR
Fixboot :- will write net partition table
Chkdsk/r :- will check HDD for errors and repairs

You can get more help with "/?" on recovery console. This might repair your HDD partition.

Reg,
Sampathn.

"richardalan3" wrote:



My Brother's Dell Dimension 5150 has crashed with 90GB of personal information on it. Not sure why, maybe caused by recent power cuts. Boot sequence starts but then blue screens. I have installed XP Home on an unused second partition which started off as F drive. This drive gave me access to the original C drive that would not boot. At this point I expected being able to simply recover the lost data by copying it from the C drive to the new operating drive. I have done this before with great success.
However, this time I was unable to copy and paste my Brother Steve's folders to the new drive. Access to the "Steve" folder was denied. I believe this has happened because Steve has password protected his own folders.

Does anyone know of a workaround to this problem?

Note: During the course of my various attempts at recovery the drive letters have changed. My recovery XP OS has changed drive letter from F to C drive and my lost Volume is currently without a drive letter.


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