WinXP_Pro: NTFS access control not working after hardidsk migration

[Danny]

Hi all
This weekend I migrated my WinXP Prof (ServicePak2) BootDisk from the
original Maxtor 120GB SATA disk to a new 160GB SATA disk. The migration was
carried out using Maxtor's MaxBlast4 (for Windows) sw. It formatted &
partitioned the disk & copied all the system & non-system files & folders to
the 160GB disk.

Then I re-configured the BIOS to boot from the new 160GB disk. No problem so
far. The migrated WinXP boots up. Applications run OK.

PROBLEM
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However, there are 2 admin-user accounts & 4 limited-user accounts on the
C-drive & on this migrated system, any limited user has full read&write
rights to all folders including administrator users' and systems & windows
folders.

The disk is NTFS system & the Windows-Explorer shows Simple File Sharing
(SFS) is NOT turned on. So I am at a lost why the privacy of different user
accounts is not working & any user has all read&write access to the whole
C-drive? All I did was mrigate the whole C_drive & not change any
user-rights.

Question
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Can anyone please help me with trying to resolve this problem & get the
normal NTFS access control working again so that different limited users can
only have read&write access to their own folders?

Thanks in anticipation.

SABOT

 

[Guest]

Youre lucky that the transfer got that far,most 3rd party utilitys dont copy
xp very well.Try opening the user accounts utility and edit,if youve tried
that,
maybe install xp cd,boot to xp cd,select install,select "repair this copy"
Only updates are lost.

 

[Danny]

Andrew

My original WinXP cd is SvcPk1 & the SvcPk2 is in a separate cd. If I choose
to reinstall WinXP SvcPk1 , will it retain all my existing installed
application settings, file structures, user accounts etc?

I am still hoping that someone will have a simpler safer approach to correct
the faulty NTFS user permission setttings without a WInXP reinstall.

Sabot

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My original WinXP cd is SvcPk1 & the SvcPk2 is in a separate cd. If I
choose to reinstall WinXP SvcPk1 , will it retain all my existing
installed application settings, file structures, user accounts etc?

It will retain *nothing*. Reinstallation wipes the disk clean and cause sthe
loss of everything, including all of the above and your data.

You can try a repair installation ("How to Perform a Windows XP Repair
Install" http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm), but there's
no guarantee that that will fix your problem. Also, although a repair
installation should keep everything intact, there's no guarantee of that
either. Things do sometimes go wrong, and before taking any major step you
should always protect yourself by being sure you have a backup of anything
you can't afford to lose.

 

[John John]

How to reset security settings back to the defaults
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222/en-us

John