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 Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 14:38 Post subject: |
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I'm guessing I've partitioned my drive to no longer be writable. easy to fix?
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 14:53 Post subject: |
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wait for [syn] 
all i know if partition is fucked, it takes allot of trouble restoring it 
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 18:21 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 18:27 Post subject: |
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As far as i remember you can access and edit ACL's of Windows installations within ERD Commander.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 18:42 Post subject: |
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cheers for the response [syn]. I think you're right, it's an access right violation that stops winXp from booting. Unfotunatly this happens without giving the opportunity for F8 to safe mode unless you reboot manually while loading. Tried "start windows with last known good configuration" & "safe mode/prompt" and same error occurs. Tried the repair windows using CD and made things worse. It had the audacity to delete files but could not write any. haha! I wasn't laughing at the time though. This I can re-do once my C: partition allows me to write I guess.
Recovery console allows me to log on under the admin password only (the one set up upon first installation). It also allows me to delete files within \Windows but not write them. Can't get access outside \Windows as "set allowAllPaths = true" requests Analysis Snap-in for it to be enabled.
Ok. This is how I messed it up. I saw that all my drives had file sharing enabled from the networking days. On trying to disable it a message "due to admin priveleges this share will be restarted on reboot blah blah". So I was wondering if the security of my system had been compromised (it was getting a bit slow recently) so I went to the security tab on each drive. I found some drives to have multiple users with full access such as "administrator" administrators" "family (used for log in)" "everyone" "system" all having full rights to my pc. So I deleted them all and added "family" rights only (full access. I then found the access rights to be reset with all subfiles and folders. sigh... so I did the stupid thing and changed ownership to "family" (it was initially on "administrators") and ticked the checkbox "apply to all child objects". It took aobut 30sec to carry out this function as it was reading all files on C: drive and changing ownership.
After this, I still found some access errors so I added "administrator( not administrators)" as having full access. I then clicked on another checkbox in security tab "advanced" I think adding all changed to all subfiles etc. *sigh...* After reboot I'm now here, stuck, and suferring from CoD2 withdrawal symptoms. But atleast my girlfriends happy.
| [sYn] wrote: | http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156669
may help |
will give it a try when I get back.
Whoknows whats ERD commander? could google I guess but heading out the door now.
will let u know how I get on.
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| Posted: Tue, 27th Jun 2006 18:49 Post subject: |
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http://www.winternals.com/Products/ERDCommander/ - ERD commander, however it is not stand alone anymore, Im sure you can find an old warezed version kicking around!
Ah so did you delete the "system" user? If so im pretty sure your boned.. unless you can readd users using repair console, I've been reading and it seems to be more powerful than I initially thought, just not sure if it will be powerful enough.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jun 2006 18:39 Post subject: |
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NTLDR is the windows boot loader, go into the recovery console and use the fixboot, fixmbr commands and that should help..
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Jun 2006 18:48 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | NTLDR is the windows boot loader, go into the recovery console and use the fixboot, fixmbr commands and that should help.. |
ahh, once again I have hope probably to have it snatched away at the last minute. will give it try when I get back tonight.
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Jun 2006 02:13 Post subject: |
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Tried fixboot & fixmbr but no luck. Running ERD commander tells me that there's no windows for it to fix. Atleast it shows the drives though. More importantly ERD claims my C: drive is "unknown type"(as apposed to fat32 etc). This tells me that there's something wrong with my partition. Will try fixpartition thingy in recovery console and see what happens.
I'm quickly losing the will to live. Thanks for all the help anyhow. It's got me this far.
Couldn't use partition magic boot dsk as laptop has no disk drive. Is there a cd I could make that would have similar function? That might save me. will google to find if ntldr problem has solution.
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Jun 2006 07:20 Post subject: |
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).. I don't belive that the partition is damaged though, so thats a plus.
, though from recent experiences i think that PM has lost it's magic.
