Re: Drives not recognized by XP

From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:53:10 -0700

You missed a part of that ;)

You need to boot into Safe Mode by pressing F8 before Windows loads and
right after the POST screen. This will give you an option and choose
Safe Mode. If you can't get the timing down, just press the restart
button while the Windows logo is showing and it will claim the startup
failed and offer you the options. Once in Safe Mode, follow the directions:

To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:

    1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and
then click Properties.
    2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message
(if one appears).
    3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
    4. In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if
you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group.
If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select the
Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
    5. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:
       You do not have permission to read the contents of directory
folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with
permissions granting you Full Control?

       All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.
       Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take
ownership of.
    6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings
that you want for the folder and its contents.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421 

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Nathan McNulty
Cecelia wrote:
> Thanks Jim. Unfortunatly when I right click the c drive and choose properties there is no security option. If I try to open I get access denied. I do not even get into c drive. Can you think of anything else?
> 
> "Jim Macklin" wrote:
> 
> 
>>see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>>
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>>"Cecelia" <Cecelia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>message
>>news:BC5345D7-1649-4778-A0F1-F8361C92B4ED@microsoft.com...
>>| I posted a this message earlier today under general about
>>how I accidently upgraded my 2K to XP I have a 60G hard
>>drive with 7 partitions and a 13G hard drive with two
>>partitions. XP recognizes and allows access to all the
>>partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and
>>allow access to 2 partitions on the 60G. The other gives me
>>a message drive not accessable, access denied. Because of
>>this I can't download files, can't delete files.
>>|
>>| What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install
>>another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I
>>can't access the drive itself. Any suggestions on how to
>>obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the
>>solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly
>>appreciated. This is seriously affecting my small business.
>>
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