Re: MFT corruption issue and permissions

Do you run Chkdsk regularly ?
it's been known to cause the issue...

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Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}


"John" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OyF9VWqtHHA.1168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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