Trying to access protected "my docs" folder

[Guest]

Hello,
I was having a problem with accessing a My Documents folder. I safe moded to
the Administrator account and when i went to click on the folder, it gives me
a "access is denied..." window.

This should not happen I think, because admin usually has full control. But
my situation is a little different.

On my hard drive, there was some kind of corruption with a boot-up driver
called "agp440", something to do with video i presume. Well when you use my
HD alone, it will load all drivers up to that point and then finally halt at
agp440, and then shutdown. Last Known config doesnt help either. I tried
doing a repair using the CD(some recovery thing) that came with my PC, but to
no avail. My HD is SATA, and i think the recovery application wont detect
SATA HD's with the way my BIOS initializes HD's(it's wierd, cant explain).
But I'm kind of done searching for solutions on this matter.

So instead of trying to get my HD to load up by itself, i decided to make it
slave on another computer of mine. There it worked because it doesnt use my
HD's boot sector, it uses the other hard drive's.

So i load up winXP (pro) on the other computer and sure enough, i see the
good HD and the one that's giving me problems. I'm able to access pretty much
all my data on the bad HD except for the My Documents folder for my user name
which i had protected. I protected it using the windows feature where you can
make things "private" as windows says.

Even in administrator account via safe mode, i cannot access it.

A plausible idea would be to just log in using my account and then just
getting my files from there. BUT windows doesnt load the system files from
both HD's, therefore the user names from my original HD are not there.

So here i am. Just need to do basic data recovery and need to bypass a
protected My Documents restriction. Any ideas?

 

[Phil]

This information can be found in Help and Support by searching for
ownership.



To take ownership of a file or folder

Open Windows Explorer, and then locate the file or folder you want to take
ownership of.

Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the
Security tab.

Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

In the Change owner to box, click the new owner.

(Optional) To change the owner of all subcontainers and objects within the
tree, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.



Notes:

To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to All Programs, point to
Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.

If you are not joined to a domain and want to view the Security tab, see To
display the Security tab.

You can transfer ownership in two ways:

The current owner can grant the Take ownership permission to others,
allowing those users to take ownership at any time.

An administrator can take ownership of any file on the computer. However,
the administrator cannot transfer ownership to others. This restriction
keeps the administrator accountable.

In Windows XP Professional, the Everyone group no longer includes the
Anonymous Logon group.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

To take ownership of a folder remember to turn of "Use Simple File Sharing"
under Tools > Folder Options > View (tab) at the bottom (scroll down).

See link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

Andre

 

[S.Sengupta]

See:-
'How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org