Norton Disk Doctor Security Descriptors

[kracheck]

Norton Disk Doctor keeps telling me that the Security Descriptors for
hard
disk C (NTFS) are in error. However, neither Disk Doctor or the XP
chkdsk /f are able to solve the problem. I've read numerous post to
find a solution but no luck yet. The odd thing however is that when I
clean-out the prefetch folder and run disk doctor afterwards, it
doesn't report Security Descriptors errors anymore. Of course as the
prefetch folder gets filled up with more files, running disk doctor on
C again let's say 30minutes later will yield in again errors in
Security Descriptors ! Any suggestion on what's happening here ?

 

[NotMe]

You have Norton installed...that is the biggest problem!

 

[Mike Holder]

Had/have the same problem with System Works 2003. Never could get a straight
answer from Symantec. Would run chkdsk and it of course would never find a
problem. A theory on my part is that there is something about NTFS 5.1 that
it didn't like (encryption?).

 

[kracheck]

I was wondering....if people with the same problem empty the prefetch
folder....do they get my results ? that is : no more security
descriptor problems ? If so it would be a step in the direction of
solving this problem.

 

[R. McCarty]

This is a "Cart-before-the-Horse" problem. I would suggest that you
stop using Norton Disk Doctor (His degree is questionable). As far
as emptying the Prefetch folder - that's a Windows myth that it in any
way improves performance or is a maintenance procedure. Normally,
the %SystemRoot%\Prefetch folder has permissions only for the
Administrators group. This issue could actually be the result of using
Norton Disk Doc - so the physician actually introduces the disease.
I would stop trying to fix an issue that is found by a program that is
itself dubious and just rely on XP's Chkdsk.