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I recently had the "pleasure" of helping repair a friend's WinXP Home SP2
machine. He installed some game package, and upon reboot, he got the dreaded
"Windows could not start because Ntfs.sys is Missing or Corrupt" message.
Armed with KB822800, I started Recovery Console from the OEM distribution
CD-ROM, logged in using the Administrator password, and attempted to copy
Ntfs.sys from the CD-ROM's \i386 directory, as instructed. I got an "Access
is denied." message. Apparently, some genius decided it would be a good idea
to make the i386 directory Hidden and System, apparently making it unreadable
(and untraversable) from Recovery Console.
Can I get access to the Ntfs.sys file in the CD-ROM's \i386 directory?
Assume I only have access to Recovery Console, since Windows XP won't start,
and he only has one computer, and I don't want to go home and copy the stupid
file on a computer that has a somewhat less fascist security policy. Does
granting this privilege require registry editing from Recovery Console? If I
can't gain access privileges, isn't this an incredible Catch-22?
machine. He installed some game package, and upon reboot, he got the dreaded
"Windows could not start because Ntfs.sys is Missing or Corrupt" message.
Armed with KB822800, I started Recovery Console from the OEM distribution
CD-ROM, logged in using the Administrator password, and attempted to copy
Ntfs.sys from the CD-ROM's \i386 directory, as instructed. I got an "Access
is denied." message. Apparently, some genius decided it would be a good idea
to make the i386 directory Hidden and System, apparently making it unreadable
(and untraversable) from Recovery Console.
Can I get access to the Ntfs.sys file in the CD-ROM's \i386 directory?
Assume I only have access to Recovery Console, since Windows XP won't start,
and he only has one computer, and I don't want to go home and copy the stupid
file on a computer that has a somewhat less fascist security policy. Does
granting this privilege require registry editing from Recovery Console? If I
can't gain access privileges, isn't this an incredible Catch-22?