Hi there. A friend of mine managed to make the mistake to remove all permissions to access the C: hard drive, thinking that it wouldn't lock the owner and administrators out. We thought of reinstalling Windows with a USB drive. But the software that Windows asks us to use, won't load up. Due to that it needs to access the C: hard drive. He can't change any settings anywhere or install anything onto the C: hard drive. So I'm wondering. If there's any wormhole that's accessible without administrators permission, to work around that security and change the permission security back to default.
He has also tried to do a recovery without the USB stick. But that fails, because the system gets denied trying to access the recovery image.
We have also tried starting the computer in safe mode to see if the security permissions still persists during that mode, and disable it that way. With no luck.
Spent a good 4 hrs scratching my head, trying to come up with a solution. But nothing turned out. So I've turned to you guys, could you help us with this little problem of ours?
NOTE: He's using Windows 10
He has also tried to do a recovery without the USB stick. But that fails, because the system gets denied trying to access the recovery image.
We have also tried starting the computer in safe mode to see if the security permissions still persists during that mode, and disable it that way. With no luck.
Spent a good 4 hrs scratching my head, trying to come up with a solution. But nothing turned out. So I've turned to you guys, could you help us with this little problem of ours?
NOTE: He's using Windows 10