When trying to asses ways of protecting data on my new laptop I foolishly denied access to the Group ‘Users’ for a whole partition. I accepted the warning (that all users in the group would be denied as deny takes precedence) as I didn’t (couldn’t) beleive that there wasn’t anything that the administrator couldn’t undo.
How wrong could I be?
I used all reasonable precautions, backed up (most) of the data. Created a restore point etc.
The system will not restore.
Administrator cannot change the permissions (as he is a member of the group users duh!). I have lost half my hard disk at stroke.
I have searched most of the forums but nothing comes close to this one.
Is there any way to recover from this? Am I going to have to fix it in Linux or do I have to delete and recreate the partition (can I delete and recreate the partition if access to it is denied)?
I am running Vista Home Premium Sp1 on a Toshiba laptop. UAC is disabled.
