I'm in some desperate need of help.
My OS froze this morning and couldn't be recovered. My configuration:
1. Hardware - Toshiba Qosmio i7 +++
2. Windows 7 Home Professional installed on SSD -- my software drive
3. Separate hard drive for data, default user directory
I had to wipe and reinstall the OS on the SSD. Having had previous bad experience with Toshiba Qosmio recovery disk, I removed my user director (data drive) first.
I created the user Admin -- with administration rights.
Via regedit, I changed my default user profile drive.
On my data drive (D, I changed my old user file from myUID to myUID.old -- so there would be no potential conflict.
I created my new UID -- with full administrator rights.
I logged on as me, went to D:\users and attempted to access D:\users\myUID.old so that I could move the data contents of the directory to my new home directory.
I received message that I don't have permissions to access -- but was given opportunity to continue as Administrator. I clicked continue.
Still no access privileges.
I right clicked on the top level directory, went to properties, into security... advanced -- and I can't take control of privileges at all -- everything is grayed out.
How do I regain access privileges on my computer where I am the Administrator???
Thank you for your help!
My OS froze this morning and couldn't be recovered. My configuration:
1. Hardware - Toshiba Qosmio i7 +++
2. Windows 7 Home Professional installed on SSD -- my software drive
3. Separate hard drive for data, default user directory
I had to wipe and reinstall the OS on the SSD. Having had previous bad experience with Toshiba Qosmio recovery disk, I removed my user director (data drive) first.
I created the user Admin -- with administration rights.
Via regedit, I changed my default user profile drive.
On my data drive (D, I changed my old user file from myUID to myUID.old -- so there would be no potential conflict.
I created my new UID -- with full administrator rights.
I logged on as me, went to D:\users and attempted to access D:\users\myUID.old so that I could move the data contents of the directory to my new home directory.
I received message that I don't have permissions to access -- but was given opportunity to continue as Administrator. I clicked continue.
Still no access privileges.
I right clicked on the top level directory, went to properties, into security... advanced -- and I can't take control of privileges at all -- everything is grayed out.
How do I regain access privileges on my computer where I am the Administrator???
Thank you for your help!