Does a format reset permissions?

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Hi,

I recently recovered an older machine by resetting the drive permissions
temporarily hooked to another machine. Those had been wiped out accidentally
in a "jolly stupid" maneuvere.

While the restored PC runs fine on basic tasks, some will not run. Adobe
Premiere, Norton Ghost, MS Office reinstall.... I keep getting different
error messages all having to do with file access.

I am planning to format the system drive and reinstall the OS. I will also
move all files on the secondary drives temporarily to an external drive and
reformat them too.

I need to know if formatting resets drive permissions, so I have consistent
settings again when the system is reinstalled.

Regards and thanks in advance for any advice.

SKS

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Thanks for the reassuring response. I shall now be proceeding as planned.

Regards and thanks again!

SKS


"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> SKS wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently recovered an older machine by resetting the drive
>> permissions temporarily hooked to another machine. Those had been
>> wiped out accidentally in a "jolly stupid" maneuvere.
>>
>> While the restored PC runs fine on basic tasks, some will not run.
>> Adobe Premiere, Norton Ghost, MS Office reinstall.... I keep getting
>> different error messages all having to do with file access.
>>
>> I am planning to format the system drive and reinstall the OS. I will
>> also move all files on the secondary drives temporarily to an external
>> drive and reformat them too.
>>
>> I need to know if formatting resets drive permissions, so I have
>> consistent settings again when the system is reinstalled.
>>
>> Regards and thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>> SKS
>
> A full format wipes the drive so nothing will be left*. To be sure you
> completely remove everything, during XP's installation delete the
> partition first, create a new one, and then install XP.
>
> *Third-party data recovery software can recovery data from a formatted
> drive, but for your purposes you can consider that nothing will be left
> of the previous operating system, including its permissions.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

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"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> SKS wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reassuring response. I shall now be proceeding as
>> planned.
>>
>> Regards and thanks again!
>>
>
> You are most welcome. Make sure you have all hardware drivers on hand
> and that you do not connect to the Internet until you have a firewall
> installed. I usually install the antivirus also, and then update its
> definitions on the first connection to the Internet.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Shouldn't SP2 be installed before the antivirus app? I've seen SP2 installs
fail because an antivirus app was installed. Some antivirus apps will
interfere even if auto-scanning is turned off.

Kerry

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I installed the OS with a SP2 Slipstreamed install CD. I did put in AntiVir
thereafter.

:-)

SKS


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
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> "Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
> newsQQCJ$JaFHA.3572@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> SKS wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reassuring response. I shall now be proceeding as
>>> planned.
>>>
>>> Regards and thanks again!
>>>
>>
>> You are most welcome. Make sure you have all hardware drivers on hand
>> and that you do not connect to the Internet until you have a firewall
>> installed. I usually install the antivirus also, and then update its
>> definitions on the first connection to the Internet.
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
> Shouldn't SP2 be installed before the antivirus app? I've seen SP2
> installs fail because an antivirus app was installed. Some antivirus apps
> will interfere even if auto-scanning is turned off.
>
> Kerry
>
>