Re: win 200 pro to win 2000 server, username corruption

Did you copy a backup security certificate onto disk before locking the
folder? If not, you may be out of luck. Check support.microsoft.com for
security papers - there may be some help there.

Good Luck!

Fred.

"Graham Palmer" <gpalmer@eastman.ucl.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:027d01c33b39$b5042bf0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have recently installed win 2000 server on a machine
> that originally had win 2000 professional. Upgrading was
> not allowed, only a complete new installation. All the
> usernames, passwords, sharing and access rights had
> therefore to be re-entered. I had a private folder that
> only I, a power user, had access to. I did not even allow
> the administrator access. Unfortunately, now, with win
> 2000 server, even I cannot get access.
> It appeared that on installing the new operating system,
> the list of users for each folder in the security option
> became scrambled with a question mark next to the icon.
> These, I all deleted. Is there any way of regaining access
> to this folder?