Repairs after a virus attack

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G F O'Neill

My son recently went to a Lan party (he removed my SP2 and security to get
the lan connection working)and got a virii!.I managed eventually got them
cleaned out but had to overwrite the OS.
This created new admins etc .How do I get access to the old doc and settings
folders where I have stored quite a few files I want access to.
gary
 
G said:
My son recently went to a Lan party (he removed my SP2 and security
to get the lan connection working)and got a virii!.I managed
eventually got them cleaned out but had to overwrite the OS.
This created new admins etc .How do I get access to the old doc and
settings folders where I have stored quite a few files I want access
to. gary
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If you overwrote the OS, you pretty much overwrote everything and your
previous files are gone.
 
G said:
My son recently went to a Lan party (he removed my SP2 and security to get
the lan connection working)and got a virii!.I managed eventually got them
cleaned out but had to overwrite the OS.
This created new admins etc .How do I get access to the old doc and settings
folders where I have stored quite a few files I want access to.
gary
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You're post isn't really clear. What do you mean by overwrite the
system? How did you do this? If the files are there and it's giving
you an error about access denied then it may just be an issue of
permissions. See this link for how to take ownership:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

If the issue is something different then please provide more information
on what you did and what is not working.
 
The virus changed the file handles and the repair option did not recognise
that
files had been corrupted,so did not repair. The way I got control of the
system was
to make the OS Install disk rewrite all of the system files and create new
admins
under the doc and settings folder.
I am trying to get into the old admin name folder to retrieve files stored
there ,
I get Access Denied message and I tried to change sharing as suggest in the
thread
but again the access denied banner
gary
 
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