Re: MFT corruption issue and permissions

What is the source for the error? NTFS? What is the exact wording and what's
in the data portion.

As to the permission issue if I'm not mistaken you can end up with that if
the drive was formatted in very beginning of the SBS install. You can easily
fix that after you have fixed the 55 error. What are the permissions on the
exchange folder?

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Claus
"John" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I started to receive error 55 messages on my data partition for my SBS SP1
box recently. My users started to experience error messages that they did
not have permission to access folders or files. Chkdsk /r and /f did not
fix the problem. I discovered that they had approx 100 files that were
over the 255 character name limit. I am running a bulk copy of the files
via XXCOPY which is able to copy all of the files including the ones that
Windows can't access. I believe that the MFT is corrupted so after the
bulk copy I will format the partition and move the data back.



One of my colleagues discovered that the partition only had root
permissions for Everyone.

I have compared it to my other servers built in the same way and they show
Administrator, Creator Owner, Everyone, System and Users.



My big question is this: I have 2 partitions on the same array. The 2nd
partition that has Exchange on it has the same permission issue of only
everyone in the root. My gut tells me that I have a bigger issue than
just the data partition since both partitions on the same array are
showing the same reduced permissions. What should I look for after I get
the data partition back and running?



TIA



John




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