Re: inaccessible partition on HD - help?

harikeo wrote:
Permissions? When you're viewing the hdd on the laptop take ownership and full control over everything. It may work.

Possibly, I've lost folders on NTFS devices in the past due to wierd permissions issues. In some cases you may find you can't even change the permissions either, even as an administrator.

Two tricks:
A) A linux boot disk, with NTFS support, as root will ignore permissions unless the drive's structure is totally whacked. Personally, I'd not use a linux system to _write_ to NTFS, but I'd write to a FAT32 formatted volume (and despite what windows says, you can have FAT32 volumes over 32Gb, you just can't format them with windows, hint: use the linux mkdosfs command (but NOT on the volume you are trying to rescue, just incase you were about to try), and windows will then use the device just fine)

B) Try and reset permissions using the CACLS command, but run it as LOCAL SYSTEM, not as an administrator.

To become the local system user (which is, in some particular cases, more powerful than a member of the administrators group), do the following in a command box, while logged in as an ordinary administrator (you need to be an administrator to schedule tasks)

1. Note the time
2. At a time in the future far enough away to give you time to type the next bit, type

AT hh:mm /INTERACTIVE CMD.EXE

where hh:mm is a future time, in 24-hour clock format. So if the current time is 22:04, use 22:05 (or 22:06 if you can't type fast enough). At the appointed time, a command window will appear, and it is running as local system.

You probably want something like
CACLS C:\foo /T /E /G username:F
.

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