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At this point I can't even remember how I got to where I am. Messing wtih
permissinos and ownership I ended up making my C drive completely unaccesible
This made it so I couldn't even boot up vista.. Ive spent the last couple
days trying everything I could think of to get it back. I thought it was the
permissions and tried every command in dos that I could.. I spent hours
online researching for a fix.. downloaded some utilities no luck.. I was
able to reset the permissions but it still didn't work.
if I would try to access the drive I would get "access denied"
I then discovered it was probably an ownership issue. Again i did hours of
research and tried every dos command/utility to change the ownership but
everything came back "Access Denied".. I booted to dos with windows NT,
windows XP, the Vista DVD, and a straight up dos boot disk.. I tried the
vista repair utility to fix statup issues.. it was workin doin something
because my hard drive was goin full force but it just never finished and then
the hard drive activity eventually stopped.
One reallyu strange thing is when I booted up with the XP I could access the
C drive but you can't run any .exe files with the windows dos shell.. you can
only run the commands they allow you..
In the end today I booted up the vistga dvd and went to format the drive..
strange thing was it didn't show up as an NTFS drive or a fat drive.. just
coulnd't access it. So I formatted it in ntfs and the install was going fine
but at about 75% it gave me an error saying it couldn't acess my drive.
Im at a loss here.. I am starting to consider a corrupt hard drive but it
happeded so quickly and the security issues make sense since I was messin
with permissions/ownership.. when I did a chkdsk everything seemed fine..
so it can be accessed but not I can't access teh directry/file system.
Im frustrated as heck now.. any ideas you might all have will be greatly
apreciated.
ive tried all types of commands and utilities..:
the old attrib command
cacls
chown.exe for canging ownership
chkdsk
xcacls
subinacl
tried vista boot up repair option..
basically that and more.. everything you could try from a dos prompt I did..
ahh help!
permissinos and ownership I ended up making my C drive completely unaccesible
This made it so I couldn't even boot up vista.. Ive spent the last couple
days trying everything I could think of to get it back. I thought it was the
permissions and tried every command in dos that I could.. I spent hours
online researching for a fix.. downloaded some utilities no luck.. I was
able to reset the permissions but it still didn't work.
if I would try to access the drive I would get "access denied"
I then discovered it was probably an ownership issue. Again i did hours of
research and tried every dos command/utility to change the ownership but
everything came back "Access Denied".. I booted to dos with windows NT,
windows XP, the Vista DVD, and a straight up dos boot disk.. I tried the
vista repair utility to fix statup issues.. it was workin doin something
because my hard drive was goin full force but it just never finished and then
the hard drive activity eventually stopped.
One reallyu strange thing is when I booted up with the XP I could access the
C drive but you can't run any .exe files with the windows dos shell.. you can
only run the commands they allow you..
In the end today I booted up the vistga dvd and went to format the drive..
strange thing was it didn't show up as an NTFS drive or a fat drive.. just
coulnd't access it. So I formatted it in ntfs and the install was going fine
but at about 75% it gave me an error saying it couldn't acess my drive.
Im at a loss here.. I am starting to consider a corrupt hard drive but it
happeded so quickly and the security issues make sense since I was messin
with permissions/ownership.. when I did a chkdsk everything seemed fine..
so it can be accessed but not I can't access teh directry/file system.
Im frustrated as heck now.. any ideas you might all have will be greatly
apreciated.
ive tried all types of commands and utilities..:
the old attrib command
cacls
chown.exe for canging ownership
chkdsk
xcacls
subinacl
tried vista boot up repair option..
basically that and more.. everything you could try from a dos prompt I did..
ahh help!