Windows 2000Pro Security

Not sure what happened to my laptop but in the process of re-installing W2Kpro there are a few directories I have lost access to. C:\data being one of them. What is really strange is going in as Administrator or with my ID which also has Administrator Rights I get Access denied messages. I have some use of the PC and it is not all areas that I cannot gain access to. When I tried recently to access Local users and Computers I received the message...Snap-in failed to intialize.
Name: IP Security Policy Management
CLSID: {DEA8A0-CC85-11D0-9CE2-0080C7221EBD}....
When I click ok at this point it takes me in to Local Security Settings but when I try to access any of the Policies within I get the following error message:
Windows cannot open the local policy database.
Access to database has been denied.

Any assistence in helping get this to come back to correctness would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for you time..

JD

 

Unfortunatly this is how windows was designed to act...
The security rights where assigned by the previous install of windows, so the new install does not register as having sufficent rights to access that directory...

I have come across this identical problem before.
And unfortunatly this is why people recommend backing up your files prior to a major system change.

Here is a solution that works some of the time...
50/50
Login as admin, right click the directory in question, go to properties, security, if the os will let you change the security so everyone has access.
Basically removing all restrictions.
Assuming this works correctly.
I would create a new directory and move the files into this new directory.
Then delete the old one...

Run scan disk, (this actually repairs directory services a little)
Then if need be, rename the new direcory back to the old name.

Goodluck...
I have had a small amount of luck doing this.