Inaccessible hard drives

[Scott]

I found an user who has administrator right cannot access certain folders
under drive C and all under driver D. Can someone advise the possible
causes and fixes.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[John John]

He simply has to alter the NTFS permissions and grant himself the
necessary permissions to access the folders & files. He can do this
with the built-in GUI tools, he can also do it with the CACLS command:

cacls d:\ /t /e /g Administrators:f

will grant Full Control to all the files and folders on drive D: to the
administrator group.

John

 

[Malkos]

How does one alter the NTFS permissions? Properties>...?

 

[John John]

For XP Pro yes, you have to disable Simple File Sharing to see the
Security tab. For XP Home, Simple File Sharing is always enabled, you
have to boot to Safe-Mode to see the Security tab, or use tools like
cacls to set the permissions without booting to Safe-Mode.

John