unable to access folder "Acess Denied"

[Chris Nguyen]

My window starts up with a blue screen right after "Boot
from A: seek", even with the safe mode. It does have an
administrative password to enter windows, which is
myself, however, windows wouldn't even boot up to that
screen. Therefore I bought a new harddrive and install a
fresh copy of XP on it and used my old harddrive as a
slave. I am able to access some of my folder, however,
the "Documents and Settings" stops at Administrator. It
will not let me acess Desktop, My Documents, and so
forth. It gives me a "Acess denied" message.
My understanding is because I did not log in with the old
harddrive it will not let me access that data on that
drive. Is that correct?
Please email me at (e-mail address removed)
Or post it on here thankyou

I really did help!

 

[Mark Dormer]

To access the data you needto take ownership and reset the permissions.

Open My computer, select the drive and right click and select properties.

On the Security tab select Advanced.
On the Owner tab, select your new account, tick the box labelled "Replace
owner on subcontainers and objects", then click Apply.

When that finishes go to the permissions, add your new acccount with Full
Control and tick the box labelled " Replace permission entries on all child
objects....."

Click OK

You now should have access to every file and folder on the disk

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[Guest]

Hi there,
I met with the same problem, but I tried to follow but
unfortunately I cannot find the security tab. I did: my
computer-select C and right click-property-then I
couldn't find the security tab. Tell me please, I
couldn't access my old files created under old screen
name. Help, please.
Thanks
James

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

This sounds like a file ownership issue related to NTFS. Note, file
ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. How you resolve
it depends upon which version of XP you are running.



XP-Home



Unfortunately, XP Home using NTFS is essentially hard wired for "Simple File
Sharing" at system level.

However, you can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot, and start
hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the
options is Safe Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's
password. This is not your administrator account, rather it is the
machine's administrator account for which users are asked to create a
password during setup.

If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press
enter.

Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to
the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect it
and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change,
move on to the next step.

Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security
tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged
on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and
ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of
the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in
the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection:
"Replace owner on subcontainers and objects," select it as well.

Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when
you log back on as that user.



XP-Pro



If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to
administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder
Options, go to the View tab and be sure "Use Simple File Sharing" is not
selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok.



If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user,
right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click
Advanced, go to the Owner tab,
select the user you wish to have access, at the bottom of the box, you
should see a check box for "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects,"
place a check in the box and click apply and ok.

The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the
folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again,
right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be
sure the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the
user name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary
permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply
and ok.

That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even
in a limited account.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

James,

Windows XP Home Edition uses Simple File sharing and the security tab will not be visible. In order to see the Security tab and configure advanced permissions, you need to boot into Safe Mode and login as Administrator. Now, access the Security tab and take ownership of the required folders. For Windows XP Professional, disable Simple File Sharing in order to view the Security tab. Open Folder Options, View, Uncheck "Use Simple File sharing".

As an alternative, you can use the CACLS command and reset the permissions. Type CACLS in a Command Prompt window to know the parameters it supports.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Hi there,
I met with the same problem, but I tried to follow but
unfortunately I cannot find the security tab. I did: my
computer-select C and right click-property-then I
couldn't find the security tab. Tell me please, I
couldn't access my old files created under old screen
name. Help, please.
Thanks
James