Thanks for the follow-up Nathan.
--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| You missed a part of that
|
| You need to boot into Safe Mode by pressing F8 before
Windows loads and
| right after the POST screen. This will give you an option
and choose
| Safe Mode. If you can't get the timing down, just press
the restart
| button while the Windows logo is showing and it will claim
the startup
| failed and offer you the options. Once in Safe Mode,
follow the directions:
|
| To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:
|
| 1. Right-click the folder that you want to take
ownership of, and
| then click Properties.
| 2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the
Security message
| (if one appears).
| 3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
| 4. In the Name list, click your user name, or click
Administrator if
| you are logged in as Administrator, or click the
Administrators group.
| If you want to take ownership of the contents of that
folder, select the
| Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
| 5. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the
following message:
| You do not have permission to read the contents of
directory
| folder name. Do you want to replace the directory
permissions with
| permissions granting you Full Control?
|
| All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.
| Note folder name is the name of the folder that you
want to take
| ownership of.
| 6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and
security settings
| that you want for the folder and its contents.
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
|
| ----
| Nathan McNulty
|
|
| 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.
| >>
| >>
| >>message
|| >>| 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.
| >>
| >>
| >>
