Re: Locked Folders
From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/04/04
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 10:00:40 -0400
Hi David,
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" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "David Tomlinson" <tomlinson6@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:tZi_c.239$Db6.115@newsfe1-win.ntli.net... > The other day day one of my siblings decided to play with the Windows XP > recovery CD and managed to stop anybody from getting to the logon screen. > All you got was 'Windows is not fully installed' in a dialogue box. So I > did > a non-destructive recovery, twice, which didn't work. Then I moved up the > recoery ladder and did the middle one which 'Reinstalls windows but > deletes > all installed programmes. The previous state of the C drive is saved into > a > new folder'. This worked - but I had to setup all the user accounts again. > From my new user account I can get into everybody elses old ones - so I > can > recover their old documents etc - but not my own. It was the top account > and > it says access is denied. I really need to either get into this file or > import the entire thing into the current user accounts setup. Any ideas? > >
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