Removing Denied Access (with Administrator account)

[Guest]

Well, I pulled a recovery off the Windows XP CD and when I logged back into
my regular account (not Administrator, but the administrator account created
in Windows setup, named Charley - which can't be removed) and I had to reboot
prematurely (with the reset button). This corrupted my Charley account. Now,
I can't even acces my C:\Documents and Settings\Charley\ folder. When I try
it gives me the message: C:\Documents and Settings\Charley is not accessable.
Access is denied.

I am not using the Administrator account and I don't know where I can
restore access to the folder to obtain the valuable information stored in
C:\Documents and Settings\Charley.

How can I restore access to the folder to get my files?

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi

Perhaps taking ownership of the folder(s) that give you the Access Denied
message will help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

> Well, I pulled a recovery off the Windows XP CD and when I logged back into
> my regular account (not Administrator, but the administrator account created
> in Windows setup, named Charley - which can't be removed) and I had to reboot
> prematurely (with the reset button). This corrupted my Charley account. Now,
> I can't even acces my C:\Documents and Settings\Charley\ folder. When I try
> it gives me the message: C:\Documents and Settings\Charley is not accessable.
> Access is denied.
> I am not using the Administrator account and I don't know where I can

 

[Guest]

Patti that wont help considering he isn't logged as the administrator.
Can you log in as Charley at all? Either that or create another
administrator account. Once you are logged in as Charley or another admin
give administrator access to your own account so you can do anything on your
own PC. Unless you dont want to for some reason. Then you should be able to
acces any folders.
I'd say the folder isn't corrupt just locked down with security

:

> Hi,
> Perhaps taking ownership of the folder(s) that give you the Access Denied

> message will help:

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=308421


> --

> Patti MacLeod

> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

 

[Guest]

I do have access to Administrator. Charley was an administrator account. The
Charley login file is corrupted - Windows tells me so when I try to log in.
It said something like: Cannot open the profle Charley because it is
corrupted. You will be logged in using a temporary profile. All data on the
temporary profile will be lost after shutting down.

:

> Patti that wont help considering he isn't logged as the administrator.

> Can you log in as Charley at all? Either that or create another

> administrator account. Once you are logged in as Charley or another admin

> give administrator access to your own account so you can do anything on your

> own PC. Unless you dont want to for some reason. Then you should be able to

 

[Guest]

I guess you need another administrator account to access the data.
Can you put the Hard drive in another PC and try to access it that way?

> I do have access to Administrator. Charley was an administrator account. The

> Charley login file is corrupted - Windows tells me so when I try to log in.

> It said something like: Cannot open the profle Charley because it is

 

[Kelly]

Devious,

He is running under a profile with Admin privileges. The System Admin
account isn't needed to do what Patti suggested.

To the original posted:

Error Message: Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be Corrupted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011

Create a New User or Restore the User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011

Suggestions:

Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager. Locate the
entries for your hard disks and double click each entry. On the Policies
tab, uncheck Enable write caching.

You will see a performance decrease because of this, but if the corrupt
registry/user profiles problems cease, then you'll be certain of the cause.

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and
then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

--
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

>I do have access to Administrator. Charley was an administrator account.
> Charley login file is corrupted - Windows tells me so when I try to log

> in.

> It said something like: Cannot open the profle Charley because it is

> corrupted. You will be logged in using a temporary profile. All data on

 

[Kelly]

He does have admin privileges, from what I read.
--
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com