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Hi,
If you are able to boot as you say but are not able to access some files it
might be a file ownership issue.
Note, file ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. How
you resolve it depends upon which version of XP you are running.
For XP-Home:
Unfortunately, XP Home using NTFS is essentially hard wired for "Simple File
Sharing" at system level.
However, you can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot, and start
hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the options is Safe Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's password. This is not your administrator account, rather it is the machine's administrator account for which users are asked to create a password during setup.
If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press enter.
Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect it and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change, move on to the next step.
Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection:
"Replace owner on subcontainers and objects," select it as well.
Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when you log back on as that user.
For XP-Pro:
If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder Options, go to the View tab and be sure "Use Simple File Sharing" is not selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok.
If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user, right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click Advanced, go to the Owner tab,
select the user you wish to have access, at the bottom of the box, you should see a check box for "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects,"
place a check in the box and click apply and ok.
The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again, right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be sure the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the user name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply and ok.
That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even in a limited account.
--
Peter
"Cecelia" wrote:
> Thanks Jim. Unfortunatly when I right click the c drive and choose properties there is no security option. If I try to open I get access denied. I do not even get into c drive. Can you think of anything else?
>
> "Jim Macklin" wrote:
>
> > see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
> >
> >
> > --
> > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
> > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
> >
> >
> > "Cecelia" <Cecelia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message
> > news:BC5345D7-1649-4778-A0F1-F8361C92B4ED@microsoft.com...
> > | I posted a this message earlier today under general about
> > how I accidently upgraded my 2K to XP I have a 60G hard
> > drive with 7 partitions and a 13G hard drive with two
> > partitions. XP recognizes and allows access to all the
> > partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and
> > allow access to 2 partitions on the 60G. The other gives me
> > a message drive not accessable, access denied. Because of
> > this I can't download files, can't delete files.
> > |
> > | What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install
> > another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I
> > can't access the drive itself. Any suggestions on how to
> > obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the
> > solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly
> > appreciated. This is seriously affecting my small business.
> >
> >
> >
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