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Hi,
I had changed permissions as administrator. When the computer was
writing these changes, it lost power. Upon restart, it would keep
rebooting. I attempted to use the repair feature of the XP PRO install
disk but got a message that it could not copy NTLDR nor NTDETECT.COM.
Naturally, the message I got on the next reboot was "NTLDR missing hit
ctrl alt del" to restart.
I used the install disk again, activating the Recovery Console choice
and logging in with the administrator password which was accepted. At
the command prompt, I attempted to copy NTLDR to the root from the i386
folder. The message said access denied. I tried copying it from i386 on
the cd with the same message. After trying to copy files from one
directory to another, I discovered that I could copy from any folder to
any folder except to and from the root (I can get a directory of the
root and see all the files). My suspicion is that the root of C now has
no permissions set to access it.
My problem is that I have way too many valuable files and programs
(some not yet backed up) to just reformat the drive and reinstall XP
Pro fresh. Is it possible to reset/bypass permissions to allow me to
restore these files using commands at the prompt or using third party
software? I do not have an automated system recovery disk.
Thanks for your attention.
------Jake
Hi,
I had changed permissions as administrator. When the computer was
writing these changes, it lost power. Upon restart, it would keep
rebooting. I attempted to use the repair feature of the XP PRO install
disk but got a message that it could not copy NTLDR nor NTDETECT.COM.
Naturally, the message I got on the next reboot was "NTLDR missing hit
ctrl alt del" to restart.
I used the install disk again, activating the Recovery Console choice
and logging in with the administrator password which was accepted. At
the command prompt, I attempted to copy NTLDR to the root from the i386
folder. The message said access denied. I tried copying it from i386 on
the cd with the same message. After trying to copy files from one
directory to another, I discovered that I could copy from any folder to
any folder except to and from the root (I can get a directory of the
root and see all the files). My suspicion is that the root of C now has
no permissions set to access it.
My problem is that I have way too many valuable files and programs
(some not yet backed up) to just reformat the drive and reinstall XP
Pro fresh. Is it possible to reset/bypass permissions to allow me to
restore these files using commands at the prompt or using third party
software? I do not have an automated system recovery disk.
Thanks for your attention.
------Jake