Re: Xp Home Forced Access

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:55:04 -0500

Hi,

You need to take ownership of them. Right-click the folder, select
properties. Go to the security tab and click advanced. You can take control
of the folders on the owner tab. For the security tab to appear in a WinXP
Pro system, you must disable simple file sharing in the control panel/folder
options/view tab. For a WinXP Home system, you must restart in safe mode and
logon as administrator. More details here:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

An additional note for WinXP Pro users: This procedure will not help you
recover data if the files are encrypted. All you will be able to do is
delete them. To recover encrypted files you will need the original
encryption certificate or a Recovery Agent from the installation under which
they were encrypted. Without one of these, the files are not recoverable.

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science!  That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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"Paul Bull" <bull53@bull53.karoo.co.ukSPAM> wrote in message
news:ugJwAFcBEHA.688@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Can anybody help please.
>
> Over the weekend my home PC (XP Home edition) went down. When booting up
the
> first thing it said was the "Windows\system32\config\system" file was
> missing or corrupt.
>
> I tried everything to get onto the drive but couldnt. The recovery console
> froze when I selected the OS number.
>
> I had no problem reinstalling windows but I had personal family picutres
> stored and rather stupidily did not back up.
>
> In the end and for future backup purposes, I bought a second drive and
> loaded it as the slave. I loaded XP Professional onto it and it can up
> great.
>
> I was able to access the files over on C drive but here is my problem. My
> pictures are stored in the MY Documents directory of my user login which
is
> the administrator and I set the folder to not be accessable to other
users.
> I CANNOT GET TO THE FILES....
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to force my way onto this directory to
recover
> my photos.
>
> Cheers
>
> PS I then also replaced the SYSTEM file on C with a backuped one to try to
> get back onto the OS on C but the lsass.exe program came up with an
> error.?????
>
>


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