Help...Locked Out of Drive!

[Jared]

I got help here but didn't get the problem solved. I have two harddrives in
my computer. One, the E: drive has all of my work files backed up on it. I
wanted to protect it so I tried using the advanced secutiry features in XP
Pro. I ended up blocking the "users" groups...which blocked me too. I was
told I need to use CACLS. I don't know what I should type. I went back to
the root by typing cd\ but do I need to do anything else because it is NOT
on the C: drive? The user I want to allow access is "Jared" an
administrative account. The files are on the E: drive. I don't know any
individual files names, just the folder name which is "RESTORE". If you need
any more info, let me know. I hope someone can help me. Thanks!

 

[Dave]

One thing you could do is to take ownership of the drive and don't allow any
other user any rights to it. This only works if it is NTFS formatted.

Right click the drive and select properties. Select the Security tab. Click
the <Advanced> button. Click the Owner tab. I think it will let you take
ownership since you stated "Jared" was an admin account. Or you could just
allow "Jared" to be the only user with any type of permissions on this drive, of
course since you 'locked' yourself out, you will have to take ownership first.

 

[mike]

try rebooting and entering in safe mode ( press the F8
key while booting up) enter winxp as administrator and
try to change the settings there....... good luck Mike
post back with the results