Re: Drive issues, Reinstall XP on second drive, " Access Denied" N

I'll give it a try, thanks JS

Greg

"JS" wrote:

You can use one of the two bootable CDs to retrieve those files.

BART PE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Puppy Linux:
http://www.puppylinux.org/

JS

"GregCost" <GregCost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tried the suggestions and they work until XP tries to write the changes to
wherever it keeps them on the disk of issue and gets a WIN32 error:
0x00000013 ERROR_WRITE_PROTECT The media is write-protected.

I need to understand, translate into something manageable how, what and
where the OS detects whatever bit is turned on to cause this 0x013 error.
On this machine I have 2 SCSI drives installed 2 @ 17Gig and 1 @ 137Gig.
The
failed disk is one of the 17Gig drives; the new XP home edition with
service
pack 3 installed.

The other possibility could be damaged media the result of the hard
shutdown
on the drive causing XP to think the disk is write protected ( not sure
that's even possible). I looked at the characteristics of the drives thru
the Adaptec SCSI BIOS software and I do not see any sort of write
protection
option turned on. I'll also check to see if there is a jumper on the
drive
for write protection.

Other possibilities . I did notice some sort of security ID that has a
Question mark beside it, could be from the old version of windows XP. when
I
try and delete it XP report s the same "Media write Protect".

Do you guys know of any product that would allow me to do the above?

Open to additional suggestions.

Thanks Greg


"GregCost" wrote:

Hi Ken, JS,

I will try suggestions made by JS. and Ken I agree my surge protector is
a
cheap one - no more.

Gentlemen thanks, good stuff, will let you know shortly

Greg

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:57:01 -0700, GregCost
<GregCost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, a major thunderstorm passed thru my area and my
computer was
shut down hard (I do have a Surge protector - not sure why it was not
effective)


You've already gotten a good answer to your major question, but I'll
address the question in your parenthesis above.

A nearby thunderstorm can generate surges of thousands of volts--much
more than any surge protector can handle. The only real protection
against a nearby thunderstorm strike is unplugging both the power line
and the internet connection whenever thunderstorms are around

Two more points:

1. Most of the surge protectors that people use are really "power
strips," costing $5-10 US. These are little more than fancy extension
cords, and are almost useless at protecting against surges. A decent
surge protector costs somewhere between $50 and $100.

2. Once a surge protector has protected against a big surge, it no
longer will function as a surge protector. Even without the surge, all
surge protectors degrade over time and eventually stop protecting.


and when I brought it up Windows was trashed, Missing system
files, some noise about disk-drive errors, blue screen of death after
windows
logo screen loads A bunch of stuff, etc. So I had to install Windows
on
another drive on the system.

Accessing the Drive with issues: I can copy files from anywhere on
the drive
to the new windows drive except for "my documents" WEHRE OF COURSE
Visual
Studio Projects, Word documents, IPod, etc, all my important stuff is
being
kept being kept. When I try this I get is "Access is denied"

When I bring the system up in Safe Mode with networking and look at
the
security permission tab for the documents folder, I see that my SID
Is not in
the permissions list. When I try and add it (my user SID) XP
validates it
and it looks like I can now have access to it, great, but when I
click apply
the response is "media is write protected" cannot apply permission
changes.
Additionally when I try and copy anything from the new Windows drive
to the
problem one I get "Media is protected" "Access denied" messages.

Tried a couple of things:

Try to defrag it from new windows - same message: Media is protected"
"Access denied"
Try to repair it from new windows - same message: Media is protected"
"Access denied"

I have also tried CACLS using the following - from DOS/Prompt
positioned
one level up

D:>\Documents and Settings> cacls greg (greg the sub directory)

Response: D:>\Documents and Settings> NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
NT
AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:<OI><CI><IO>F
<Account Domain not found>F
<Account Domain not
found><OI><CI><IO>F

WHEN I try the following:

D:> cacls "D\documents and settings" /T /E /C /G "Greg Cost":F

response 1: are you sure?
response 2: The media is write protected

Its not like damage (maybe) it's almost like the drive in question
still has
permissions from the now defunct XP system and the new XP system
can't quite
figure out how to change it for usage. Keep in mind that I am able
to copy
files from it except the original MY Documents. So there is some
default? or
basic property accessibility

Any Help Greatly Appreciated! system: Windows XP, NTFS all drives,
SCSI

Thanks Greg

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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