I cant access into a partition

I have reinstalled my win xp.
Now I can't access anymore a partition of my hd where I had enable only a user to get in.

After trying to set myself to get into the partition I was only able to access to the partition not inside the folders.

Any way to get into the folders for every users on my pc?

Thanks

 

Try running the following command from a command window:

cacls "E:\" /e /g /c user:f

Substitute your partition for E:\ and your user id for user. Observe all spaces, etc.

 

how do I know my user id?
anyway is this what I have to write in a DOS prompt window?

/e /g /c user:f

 

Go to Control Panel and click User Accounts and see who YOU are.

Then the command becomes:

cacls "E:\folder name" /e /g /c your user ID:f

You must also substitute the partition letter and folder name if it is different then the E:\ that I have guessed.

Edit. If you have several folders to change, it will be necessary to do each one individually. There may be a faster method using some other command but I'm not aware of it.

The quotes are needed if there are any embedded spaces in the path.

 

I just tested that string and it didn't work for me. Then I modified it to:

cacls E: /e /g owner:f and it completed. My id is owner so change it to suit yours and try it.

For a full help screen, just type cacls.

 

Further tests reveal that it matter what order the switches are used in:

cacls E: /t /e /g owner:f works since the /t switch was move to the beginning of the switch string.

It seemed to apply to all files without regard to directory so it would do what you need in one operation, all folders on the drive. If you have many hundreds of files, it may be a long ride but wait it out.

 

here is what I get: accesso negato means acces denied

 

That was the correct command string but I'm sorry to say it's not going to be possible to gain entry to those files. The means to do so was lost when you wiped out the old system Registry.

You should stick around for a second opinion but I see no hope. Perhaps a bit-copy using an imaging software could pull the files out but I have never tried that. XP's security is pretty tough to crack and those that can are not allowed to do so on this forum due to an established rule about such.

Sorry.

 

Look in this older thread for some inspiration:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?p=223649#post223649

Don't get too hopeful but it may have some possibilities.

 

2 things you can try.

Plug the drive into a win98 computer with a NTFS reader installed or plug it into a Win2k computer and right click on the folders, select security and try to take ownership of the folders.

The Win98 way gets around NTFS restrictions and the Win2k way gets around encryption as well.

 

Win2k way gets around encryption as well
point of order, this method would be one possible way to deal with a permissions problem, but will have no effect of files encrypted with EFS.